{"id":9806,"date":"2015-05-29T05:15:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T09:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/?page_id=9806"},"modified":"2024-06-07T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T23:50:14","slug":"floating-suburbia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/aah\/people\/topolski\/site-specific-installations\/floating-suburbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Suburbia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Erie Art Museum
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The typical suburban domestic exterior is tailored to improve the view of the home and accommodate the outdoor comfort of its inhabitants; it is ‘planned’ nature contained by pickets and restrained with noxious chemicals and specialized equipment. \u00a0The diameter of the work was approximately 15 feet; the peak of the turf was approximately 24inches from the surface of the water. The substructure of sealed black plastic pipe was attached to raft of Styrofoam. A mesh netting stretched over the pipe framework to support the Astro-Turf. A sprinkler drew water from the harbor and ran on a solar powered pump.(Read more under ‘Specific Bodies of Work’)<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2190 Site-Specific Installations
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