CIVIC MATTERS at LACE

CIVIC MATTERS was a two week residency project at LACE
(Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) which brought together eight artists
and art collectives to host a similar group of seven from Scandinavia.
The goal was to brainstorm about civic spaces and activist art making,
and to foster collaborative and collective art projects

Fallen Fruit held a nocturnal fruit forage and a shopping cart tour
of downtown Los Angeles, in which we scoured the garment and fabric distric
to harvest the flotsam of industrial waste. Since many of the participants were interested in craft,
we then had a God's Eye workshop in David's studio on Wall St. We like the God's Eyes because
they are a kind of kitsch folk tradition invented out of whole cloth; they're also easy. These God's Eyes will be
placed in favorite high-yielding public fruit trees to bless their fertility and protect them from harm.