Concept
We created a piece of street art to be wheat pasted within the Lower East Side (near Tompkins Square Park) commemorating the 1988 Tompkins Square Park Riot, that is representative of how the music and the people influenced and created social change in the area.
We want this piece to remind people of the events that occurred, why they occurred, and what happened as a result. The style and imagery aim to show the current residents the historical significance the square has had to music and society. The tree is a metaphor for how the events branched out, and how social change is so deeply rooted in the events of that night. The social change that resulted was a conglomerate of different ethnicities, musical styles, and social classes. The people who currently live in the area, are not necessarily connected each other than their geographical space, thus the tree becomes not only a symbol of the park, but also a way of unifying different groups within a single space.
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