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Budget:
Seeds: $1
Seed starting supplies: $5
Light, rain, time, and 6 square feet of garden: priceless
Total: $6.00
Project: Catnip
Location: Hoyt St. at Baltic St., Brooklyn, NY
Date: 5/2/2007 - ?
Statement:
A stray cat has been visiting my urban backyard garden lately. I don’t know where the cat comes from or goes to. It has white fur with black patches. I have seen other cats like it on my street, in a rapidly-gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood where mommies pushing babies in $1000 strollers walk blithely past a thriving corner drug trade. In a place like this, a stray cat might enjoy a mild, all-natural hallucinogen.
On May 2, 2007, I will plant three catnip plants in my backyard in the hope that the cat will visit and enjoy them sometime during the summer. I will document the plants’ growth and try to record the cat’s interaction with the work.
Bio:
Zoë Sheehan Saldaña is a visual artist who uses
photography, craft processes, sculpture, drawing,
and digital media to make images and objects. Her
work examines such notions as the shifting value
of the 'handmade' in art, the dynamic between low
and high art forms, the imperfect and often additive nature of copying and reproduction, and the multiple roles of the audience in the art experience. Her work has been shown and reviewed in the U.S. and internationally.
Sheehan Saldaña, Zoë
Meuschke, Frank
Antebi, Nicole