{"id":252,"date":"2013-07-12T22:25:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T22:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-09-18T05:22:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T05:22:02","slug":"a-walk-around-willets-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/2013\/07\/a-walk-around-willets-point\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk to Willets Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6718.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-231\" alt=\"IMG_6718\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6718-764x1024.jpg\" width=\"764\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6718-764x1024.jpg 764w, http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6718-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6718.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We returned to Flushing Meadows Corona Park today and met with Jennifer for a walk to Willets Point, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qchron.com\/editions\/north\/day-after-willets-point-rally-helen-marshall-approves-proposed-mall\/article_2150c699-d521-5302-9349-dd7d8b29fb35.html\">site slated to turn into a mall<\/a>. The area is nicknamed the &#8220;Iron Triangle,&#8221; and is home to a number of scrap yards, car repair businesses, even Tacquerias. There is no drainage there, so after the rain, the roads flood full of a dark sludge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6736.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-230\" alt=\"IMG_6736\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6736-1024x1024.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6736-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6736-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6736-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6736-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6736.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6719.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-253\" alt=\"IMG_6719\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6719-1024x764.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6719-1024x764.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6719-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6735.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-228\" alt=\"IMG_6735\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6735-1024x1024.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6735-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6735-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6735-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6735-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6735.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We talked about the ostensible ideology behind the World&#8217;s Fairs-of creating a multicultural, international utopia, and how the area and the park has become that, almost, as Jennifer commented &#8220;despite itself&#8221; because the neighborhood has claimed this former ash dump and made it for their own. Whenever we visit, we constantly observe people using the park, not as intended, but as they need\/desire it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6733.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6733-1024x764.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We attempt to map out these relationships among time, sound, and space as a way to change our way of seeing the park- to shift perspectives to that of a mouse, a rat, a child, or a tree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6729.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6729-764x1024.jpg\" width=\"764\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We returned to Flushing Meadows Corona Park today and met with Jennifer for a walk to Willets Point, the site slated to turn into a mall. The area is nicknamed the &#8220;Iron Triangle,&#8221; and is home to a number of scrap yards, car repair businesses, even Tacquerias. There is no drainage there, so after the&hellip; <a class=\"link_more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/2013\/07\/a-walk-around-willets-point\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-reflection","post_format-post-format-gallery","document-photo","document-text","iland-residency-or-event-ilab2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilandart.org\/ilanding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}