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Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006)
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard To be installed in 2006.
Source: parsons.edu.
"The idea of a Community Garden came to me during one of my walks
around the Bedford Park Boulevard station in the Bronx. I did not see
such gardens in that neighborhood, and started playing with the idea
of creating an imaginary one to decorate the walls of this stop on the
4 line. People leaving the neighborhood or coming back to it will see
colors and shapes that are different from the ones predominantly found
on their streets. Children will find critters and bugs hidden at their
eye level among the leaves which they may never otherwise see in the
city: a grasshopper, a ladybug, blue and green beetles.
Lehman College has a beautiful campus with grass, trees and squirrels,
but most of the neighborhood residents don.t see much nature on their
streets. The red-brown-tan of the many-storied buildings and the gray
of the pavement are the dominant colors on the streets. The extremely
wide avenues, the bridges, train tracks, overpasses, garages, tire
shops, a Laundromat with a beautiful broken neon sign from the
thirties, an old bakery, a couple of modern high-rises in the
distance, a few small convenience stores and the occasional small
family house give the neighborhood its urban industrial visual flavor.
What if there were more colors, more playful shapes? What if there
were more plants? The community gardens I know are lush, rich, unique
little islands in the middle of the urban bustle where the planting
and decorating reflect the vision of several people. What usually
results is a unique composition of plants, colors, and
shapes. Neighborhood residents cherish these gardens as places of
creativity, nature and beauty.
I approached my subject in a playful way, by combining real creatures
with imaginary ones and by working with scale: having monumental size
plants and bugs next to a cat of more or less regular size. I hope
that my garden will delight commuters and inspire them with its
playfulness and intense colors."-- Andrea Dezs�. Source: cuny.edu.
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Woodlawn Line
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 6/21/2007
Artwork: Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006).
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Woodlawn Line
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 6/21/2007
Artwork: Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006).
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Woodlawn Line
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 6/21/2007
Artwork: Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006).
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Woodlawn Line
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 6/21/2007
Artwork: Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006).
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Woodlawn Line
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 6/4/2007
Artwork: Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006).
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Woodlawn Line
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 6/4/2007
Artwork: Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006).
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Woodlawn Line
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 6/4/2007
Artwork: Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006).
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Woodlawn Line
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 12/25/2006
Artwork: Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006).
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Woodlawn Line
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 12/25/2006
Artwork: Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006).
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Woodlawn Line
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 12/25/2006
Artwork: Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006).
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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Woodlawn Line
Location: Bedford Park Boulevard
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 2/17/2006
Artwork: Community Garden, Andrea Dezsö (2006).
Notes: Proposal for the Bedford Park Blvd. art installation, at "Bronx Bound" exhibit at Lehman College.
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