As 2020 thankfully draws to a close, we were able to get out of the apartment and see this lovely tree at Fort Greene Park. While it’s not quite as large and magnificent as the tree at Rockefeller Center, this tree is doing its best, just like all of us. Bye, 2020. Hello, 2021.
Adorn Me
Tanda Francis, a Brooklyn-based artist who incorporates Victorian and colonial ornamentation into her work, is known for focusing on monumental African female heads and masks and ancient customs and rituals. Adorn Me, an impressive sculpture in Fort Greene Park, is inspired by African sculptural tradition, including Ife portraiture, and is meant to address the under-representation of positive images of and by people of African descent in public artworks and also “provide a healing message during a time of heated debate over monuments erected as symbols of oppression and control.” The sculpture will be in Fort Greene Park through August 17, 2019.