{"id":723,"date":"2007-12-16T02:09:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T00:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/16\/brooklyn-poet-artist-ben-trimmier-rebecca-pollock-taffee-place-installation\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T02:09:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T00:09:32","slug":"brooklyn-poet-artist-ben-trimmier-rebecca-pollock-taffee-place-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2007\/12\/16\/brooklyn-poet-artist-ben-trimmier-rebecca-pollock-taffee-place-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn poet & artist Ben Trimmier – Rebecca Pollock, Taffee Place Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"

12\/15\/07<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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happy Saturday<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

to stay home<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

if I choose to <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

guard my health<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

for the week<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

ahead<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

nearly 7am <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

the daylight seeping <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

into the slip <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

strip <\/font><\/span>sky above <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

my warehouse canyon <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

called Taffee Place <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

rising at 5:30 <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

with no school day <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

to go to I have slept <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

since 9:30 last night<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

yes: the wild Friday nights<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Benjie falling out <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

during the PBS news fest<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

halfway through Bill Moyers Journal <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

waking in the midst of Charlie Rose <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

genuflecting to sartorial king Bill Clinton <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

who didn\u2019t disappoint Charlie <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

but didn\u2019t engage me <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

I returned to sleep<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

I retired to dream <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

to sleep <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

my heating pad corset <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

strapped on <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

for relief <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

I have worn <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

since Monday <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

grateful I can sleep <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

with my back sprain <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

spasms wishing <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

I had pain pills for <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

to make it <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

through these days <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

less gingerly guarding <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

girding my movements <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

with kindergarteners\u2019 ways <\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

their tiny chairs <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

I should not <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

be lifting <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

but I do <\/span><\/p>\n

Ben Trimmier<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nRebecca Pollack<\/p>\n

Rebecca Pollock, Become<\/em><\/strong>
\nDecember 2005 to December 2006
\nMural for Taffee Playground, Taffee Pl, Park & Myrtle Aves, Brooklyn<\/p>\n

Image:<\/strong> courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong>
\nThis mural covers a temporary wall adjacent to Taffee Playground. The subject of it relates to the omnipresence of litter in the neighborhood surrounding the playground. The artist selected the black plastic shopping bag as a symbol of this urban problem. “Rather than focus on the carelessness that this object represents when found in the street, I’ve chosen to sculpt it into another kind of debris: a leaf,” says Rebecca Pollock, the artist. “Become<\/em> encourages others to make similar leaps of the imagination with all the elements of their environment. I hope that this image will promote a spirit of making something beautiful out of something ugly and making the most out of limitation.”<\/p>\n

Ms. Pollock is enrolled in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts.\n<\/p>\n

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