NYC Earth Art

Please allow 7 working days to process before shipping White Short Sleeve Tee100% Combed Ring Spun Cotton  Agnes Denes Since the late 1960s, Hungarian-born artist Agnes Denes has created large-scale, public environmental installations including, perhaps most famously, 1982’s Wheatfield—A Confrontation, in which she planted, tended, and harvested a two-acre field of wheat on a landfill in lower Manhattan (which is now Battery Park City), not far from the World Trade Center. It’s a seemingly straightforward piece, lasting only the six months it took to grow and harvest the 1,000 pounds of wheat, but, like much of Denes’s work over her 50-year career, its apparent simplicity hides the heady ideas (and hard physical labor) at its foundation.  The wheatfield stands as a visionary and transgressive act, a monument to identify misplaced priorities questioning controversial global issues and endless contradictions. The provoking work contrasted urban and rural, finance and agriculture, m