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The meetup is scheduled for Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Franklin Street Works. The group will walk to the train station (or join the group at the downtown Stamford station) for 11:03 a.m. train -- third car from end, the group said on its website. The participants will all gather between 12:30 and 1 p.m. at Clocktower Gallery in New York City.
A total of 55 Honey Locust trees are growing in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, the main location of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests. Artist David Horvitz collected seeds from those trees last year and is germinating them at New York’s Clocktower Gallery, a statement said.
His Clocktower artist residency ends Saturday, so Horvitz will lead 55 people in carrying the seedlings, one plant per person, back on another Metro-North train to Franklin Street Works. The plants will continue to grow there through June 16 during the Strange Invitation exhibition.
Horvitz sees one person carrying one plant as a poetic component, and says in the statement, “I really like the image of someone going across the Atlantic in the 17th, 18th, 19th century, in a boat, carrying a small apple branch, or rose cutting, ready to plant it in America.”
In June, Horvitz and Franklin Street Works hope to find permanent homes for the trees at public institutions such as museums, libraries and college campuses.
Franklin Street Works is a not-for-profit contemporary art space, café and social gathering place located in renovated row houses on Franklin Street. To learn more about it, visit its website.
To sign up and be a part of the performance, email your RSVP to Sandrine@franklinstreetworks.org. For information on FSW support and options in purchasing Metro-North tickets, email terri@franklinstreetworks.org.
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