Guerrilla Gardening

My favorite form of vandalism goes by the name Guerrilla Gardening. This covert greening of cities was the inspiration for a travelling art exhibition that I co-created (see image) and has also been the subject of a recent NPR story, and an article in Tuesday's Christian Science Monitor...

In Stratford, in the farthest reaches of East London, a band of guerrillas has taken over a plot of land. It's the wrong side of 11 p.m. on a hot, sticky night, the air heavy with rain that refuses to fall. Passersby - some full of a night of revelry, others only now dragging home from work - gawp at the guerrillas as they lay claim to a patch ofground at the entrance to a small block of apartments.

"We have reclaimed it from the local government!" says a youthful, ruddy-faced guerrilla, brandishing his "weapon" defiantly.

Read the entire article here. And learn more about the burgeoning UK Guerrilla Gardening movement here.