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Phong H. Bui (pictured above)
Publisher of The Brooklyn Rail, Greenpoint<\/p>\n
How long have you lived in Greenpoint?
\u00a0Since 1993, when I got a summer sublet from an ad in The Village Voice. The person on the lease decided not to come back, so I\u2019ve lived here forever.<\/p>\n
What do you think of the biennial exhibition, \u201cTrees Never End and Houses Never End<\/a>\u201d? Marivie Koch<\/p>\n Gallery marketing manager, Bedford-Stuyvesant<\/p>\n Ken Shung<\/p>\n Photographer, Chelsea<\/p>\n How has the field of photography changed over the years? <\/p>\n It used to be a skill that was considered professional. And you had to learn all this technique and math. Now, you just close your eyes and put your finger on a piece of glass and the picture is amazing. I hate to say it, but today you don\u2019t need math.<\/p>\n Dan Colen with Days and Mickey Colen<\/p>\n Founder of Sky High Farm, Pine Plains<\/p>\n Phil Haynes<\/p>\n Director of farm operations at Sky High Farm, Valatie<\/p>\n Yasmina Cabrera<\/p>\n Herbalist, Fordham<\/p>\n How did you get into plant medicine? <\/p>\n I have a very vivid memory of having a cut or a burn when I was a kid, and my grandmother would be like, \u201cLet\u2019s go to the garden, grab some of the aloe, and we\u2019ll treat you.\u201d And I think that has really stuck with me, the fact that you can grow your own medicine and it can be accessible and for the people.<\/p>\n Jacqueline Farrara<\/p>\n Poet, Leeds<\/p>\n William Glaser Wilson and Oly Wilson<\/p>\n Artist and kindergartner, Witherbee\u00a0<\/p>\n Richard Frumess<\/p>\n Arts administrator, Kingston\u00a0<\/p>\n Stephen Lichty<\/p>\n Artist, San Francisco, California<\/p>\n You have two pieces on display today, but everyone is talking about the one with the cat on it. <\/p>\n It\u2019s called Untitled. It\u2019s a column of basalt with a taxidermied cat draped over it. The cat is stuffed with straw and bound with string. I found the cat just after it had died in front of my sister\u2019s house in Kansas City.<\/p>\n Nina Tucker<\/p>\n Program coordinator at Sky High Farm, Kingston<\/p>\n Dina Washington<\/p>\n Actress, Kingston<\/p>\n The late artist Ben Wigfall\u2019s work is a big part of this show. You knew him personally? <\/p>\n When I was a little kid, he taught me and all the children in Ponckhockie printmaking in a formerly abandoned barn called Communications Village.<\/p>\n Marina Schindler<\/p>\n Realtor and interior designer, Williamsburg<\/p>\n Osvaldo Chance Jimenez<\/p>\n Writer, Hamden<\/p>\n Soba Eshima<\/p>\n Graphic designer, East Village<\/p>\n Josh Bardfield<\/p>\n Co-executive director of Sky High Farm, Dutchess County<\/p>\n What grows well here? <\/p>\n A lot of things. All of our crop plans are designed with our food-access partners \u2014 food banks, food pantries, and community-based organizations we donate to. We grow a lot of cilantro and parsley. We can\u2019t grow enough of them, and we didn\u2019t think at first they would be so popular.<\/p>\n Immanuel J.<\/p>\n Artist and studio assistant, Hudson\u00a0<\/p>\n What\u2019s it like living as an artist around here? <\/p>\n Really, really expensive. It\u2019s a hot spot for wealthy people who come from the city. I am blessed to have a job that pays me a livable wage, and I also teach at an arts center for kids, but I\u2019m living paycheck to paycheck. I find this to be the case with almost everyone who is doing interesting things.<\/p>\n Caleb Rogers<\/p>\n Former master printer, Spencertown<\/p>\n Alix Becker<\/p>\n Farmer at Farmstead Hudson Valley, Hudson<\/p>\n \n Photographs by Adam Dowling\n <\/p>\n Thank you for subscribing and supporting our journalism. Want more stories like this one? Subscribe now<\/a>
It\u2019s a very, very immersive curation. I celebrate this idea of the collective. It brings people together. Artists\u2019 freedom is so important. The exhibition embraces the slowness of culture. It takes time to make a painting, write a poem, choreograph a dance, even organize a show like Sky High has. And that slowness of culture is a tool against the speed of technology. By the way, all tyrants love speed. They love to create fear through technologies with the radio, with the television, whatever. If they can use it, they do it. And our job is to do the opposite. You know what I mean?<\/p>\n
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