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COVER STORY
Trash
Kurt Andersen and landscape architect Niall Kirkwood
look at the things we throw away--and what artists do with them.
  Landfill
Artist
Over thirty years ago, New York artist Mierle Laderman
Ukeles decided to find out what happened to her own garbage, and she never
turned back. Produced by Mallory Kasdan.
Go to the Fresh Kills website
Go to the Dept
of Sanitation website
 Junk
Sculptor
The sculptor and performance artist Ned Schaper has
been working with found objects for the last twenty years. He says his
kinetic junk-sculptures come together by accident. Produced by Julia Barton.
Go to the Mat Bevel Institute website
 Trashed
Have you ever been rooting around in some drawer in
your house and come across an old short story from college? Or a poem
you wrote in high school? Chances are, that whether you thought the thing
was terrific or embarrassingly bad-you didn't throw it out. Artist Damali
Ayo is a little less sentimental.
Go to Damali Ayo's
site
SPECIAL GUEST
Niall Kirkwood
Niall Kirkwood teaches Landscape Architecture at the
Graduate School of Design at Harvard where he is also the director of
the Center for Technology and Environment. His passion for trashed and
neglected landscapes has led him to focus his work around urban brownfields,
Superfund sites, and closed landfills.
Go
to the Harvard Design School's site
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Junk Mail. Graphic designer and writer Steven
Heller looks at the only trash you let come in your house every day.
Junk Mail. Or as the industry calls it, direct mail. Produced by Michael
Raphael.
Fenway
If you're watching the baseball playoffs this
season, you may have noticed the grass underfoot at Fenway Park, home
of the Boston Red Sox. Those geometric patterns criss-crossed in light
and dark are the handiwork of David Mellor. Mellor is the director of
grounds at Fenway, and he designs those patterns on paper. Then, he
and his crew create them on the turf. Produced by Steve Nelson.
Go to the American
Folk Art Museum website
Check
out David Mellor's latest book
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