SECOND NATURE
Grant Park, Chicago, IL
Chain link fencing, cedar benches, steel frames with Astroturf, real plantings and sod
60 x 12 x 100 feet
Second Nature incorporates live text growing through artificial turf panels accompanied by the classic icon of domestic shelter a house. The house formed of chain link affords a view in and through, though cannot be physically entered, suggesting our attempt to mediate between the inside and the outside. The text second nature is home references second nature as a landscape of mad made elements introduced into the world to make nature habitable.
