Future Phenomena, a piece by artist Amanda Browder
Williamsburg and Greenpoint have a passionate shared environment, a strong sense of community, especially when it comes to the arts. This weekend the area played host to two “arts and crafts” related events.
One of the art related events was the unveiling of Future Phenomena, a piece by artist Amanda Browder—a large scale (40 foot) fabric art sculpture covered the entire side of a building on Manhattan Ave. It was brightly coloured and beautifully pieced together but the most impressive detail about the art work, is the fact that it was made, in all its glory, by volunteer hands, showing a true representation of the group effort in the Greenpoint community; sewing from March until June. This piece is paving the way for the much needed ‘together-ness’ of the area and its inhabitants; a physical display of the community’s effort to recycle and reuse. With all the construction, activism, and I’m sad to say change, that this community is facing, this piece sheds light onto a much darker phenomena.
