On October 2, at Fresh Kills amidst an annual festival-like event that included kite flying, goat petting, food carting, and kayaking -- all happening in a dump!! -- we created a movement/installation of mylar, strings, and words.

Words sourced from post-consumer waste, i.e. magazines, grocery bags, cereal boxes, carry-out containers, etc., were strung alongside fragments of Jennifer Scappettone’s poetry, reaching up to 260 linear ft., the length of the short-side of an average city block.

A block-long length of mylar was the ‘template’ or base for the installation, and the strings of words, four total, were threaded (with upholstery needles), measured, and accumulated above the mylar surface.

A block-long length of mylar is a lot of mylar and yet, in relationship to the scale of the Fresh Kills landfill, it’s size was dwarfed.

Over 2,000 people were there that day.