Flock House Residency, paul lloyd sargent: day one

Working on lots of little things over this week in Mary’s Flock House.  Need to finish up my article about C.U.P. for Proximity Magazine, submit a proposal with Jenna Loyd for our comparative border video installation for the Strong & Chata show in Chicago, shoot the video component for my entry to Jordan Dalton’s Beyond the Multitude tribute to Scajaquada Creek show in Buffalo and continue work on my hydronym: erie basin meets erie basin project (see a short video from the tour here) about the Red Hook waterfront that I started for Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown’s BIKE BOX exhibition at Devotion Gallery. 

But I figured I’d do a little morning exercise here each day, starting off with a half-hour trash clean up around the DUMBO waterfront.  In just the first half-hour of my first day here, I collected this:

And I had a lot of competition.  At 11am on a Monday, there were three separate groups cleaning up the tiny Brooklyn Bridge Park right in front of Smack Mellon. 

There was some sort of army of “friends of the park” type volunteers, all very excited to pick up trash, weed the grounds, and rake the play areas:

There was a crew of youth who looked like they got dragged there against their will but were at least enjoying the sunny day (and those “grabby extender” things):

And then there were the two city workers for whom this was just a job and not at all a field trip or feel good volunteerism or art or whatever:

And I most likely just looked like a sweaty, out of work guy picking up 5-cent returnables (which I guess I basically am):

-paul