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:: 9.29.2003 ::
This is a photo of a sculpture made of bright orange styrofoam and rebar and rusty metal plates... fanciful and huge, it is one of many pieces created and still located on a strip of land in the East Bay known as the Albany Bulb Landfill. The artists call themselves the Sniff Art Collective. This year the landfill – a lumpy, overgrown park adjacent to the Golden Gate Fields Racetrack on the Berkeley-Albany line – is threatened by a state park plan that will likely sanitize and forever change the culture of the place.
There have been several articles in the Chronicle about the Albany Bulb; here's one about a film documenting the homeless encampment located on the landfill for 10 years before police shut it down in 1999; and here's one that goes into more detail about the battles over this piece of land and many others in the East Bay: "The popularity and passions result in never-ending skirmishes pitting developers against preservationists, dog lovers against bird lovers, people who want some rules enforced against a group of self-described artists and free spirits called 'Let It Be.'"
:: Deb 10:18 AM :: permalink ::
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