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Mary Lucking - Lizard Acres Studio
Can-Do
1999, Nashville, TN
Perforated metal trash cans woven with telephone wire scraps
 
 
   
   
Mary Lucking - Lizard Acre Studio

As part of Nashville, Tennessee's 12South streetscape redevelopment project in Spring 1999, youth and seniors at Sevier Park Community Center created colorful patterns for four new litter receptacles. Based on African and Native American beading and weaving designs, the patterns are created by weaving colored telephone wire into the perforated metal surfaces of the new red trash cans that were ordered to be installed in the Phase I area (the blocks closest to Sevier Park) of 12South project. The patterns on the cans highlight the interaction between rules and free-form creativity in art. Each pattern has a set of rules, within which the weavers will be encouraged to follow their own visions of color, pattern, and texture. As a thank-you for their work, a celebration day was held for the kids involved in the project.