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ABOUT THE WALL OF CORN
Come celebrate the end of the hand and, more recently, the machine harvest and witness the fruits of the community’s labor. View a mesmerizing array of more than 130,000 colorful ears of corn, all hung along the fence that separates Not A Cornfield from the Gold Line Metro Rail tracks that run from Downtown Los Angeles at Union Station through the Arroyo Seco on it way to Pasadena.
ABOUT THE FIRE
Fire has played a vital role in the creation of the Not A Cornfield Project. Before the first seeds were hand-planted, a fire was kindled at the Eye of the field where ancestral hawks still hover. The fire circle illuminated the night and warmed hearts as we passed the talking stick and listened to stories of reconciliation and songs of redemption. The fire marked the middle of the “four directions,” and that night we were the middle of the universe. Since then, visitors have come together around the fire during numerous memorable events, held in the middle of this megalopolis. Now, back by popular demand, the fires will once again shine the path along this Wall of Corn.
ABOUT THE DANCE
(Information as available) ABOUT NOT A CORNFIELD SALONS
Not A Cornfield Salons that bring people together in order to share, engage, energize, and enhance the organic nexus that is this project. Please note that this is the final salon of 2005. The series will reopen in mid-January 2006.
ABOUT THE NOT A CORNFIELD PROJECT
Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' had remained derelict for more than a decade. The project serves as a potent metaphor that provides a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center.
ABOUT LAUREN BON, NOT A CORNFIELD ARTIST
Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not A Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by the Annenberg Foundation. |
