Hi Everyone,

I was so happy to have the opportunity to invite Mary Mattingly on to my show, to talk about her art project, SWALE, a floating food forest docked in NY harbor. I actually got to visit the floating farm project while it was still docked at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, before it headed north to Peekskill for some winter renovations. Mary Mattingly’s art projects always share the theme of sustainability, resiliency, food and water access, the environment, and in the case of SWALE, its intersection with people and service. SWALE will return to the Brooklyn Army Terminal next Spring, but in the meantime, it is fostering a SWALE land based program right in the Loop on Governors Island! They are hosting public workshops on issues of food access, ecology and horticulture.

If you want to see some of Mary’s other works, she has a show going on right now at Bric, in Brooklyn, called ‘What Happens After”, engaging people to rethink their relationship to the environment and to each other. The centerpiece of this exhibition, is a deconstructed and creatively transformed 19,000-pound light medium tactical vehicle (LMTV, a military cargo truck), which acts to provoke a reimagining of public life, centering on the existence of objects with violent histories. Check it out! And if you missed our interview, you can listen to it here!