By Kwame Opam
...Blinder's series (click here) was done for Envision New York 2017, a web-based art project that shows New York artists' ideas about life, art, and politics in the city. For each GIF in Vacated, Blinder used the NYC Department of City Planning's PLUTO dataset to find buildings built in the last four years throughout the city. The pieces transition from empty spaces or rundown corners to condos or construction areas and back again almost instantaneously, in a way that's pretty visually arresting. According to Blinder, "Vacated mines and combines different datasets on vacant lots to present a sort of physical façade of gentrification, one that immediately prompts questions by virtue of its incompleteness."...
This is a recent art rendition of continued needs for gentrification. There are many cities in the country that could use some gentrification.
Gentrification is often viewed as an untoward movement because it moves the elderly out of buildings where they have lived for a very long time. There was a movie about that called "Batteries Not Included."
I think the truth is more important. There are many adjectives to describe Donald Trump, but, it is arguable this projects improved lives. No one stopped the gentrification, the activists focus on the elderly helped them to relocate without being put on the street. It was upsetting I am sure, but, it had to occur at sooner or later.
I think the truth is more important. There are many adjectives to describe Donald Trump, but, it is arguable this projects improved lives. No one stopped the gentrification, the activists focus on the elderly helped them to relocate without being put on the street. It was upsetting I am sure, but, it had to occur at sooner or later.
