Thanks to A Clearing in the Streets, a temporary installation by Julie Farris (a landscape designer) and Sarah Wayland-Smith (an artist/landscape designer) commissioned by the Public Art Fund, you can now find a secluded meadow in the middle of downtown New York. Driven by the idea of finding creative, yet sustainable, ways to take advantage of the city’s small available spaces, the women converted Collect Pond Park — once a 60-foot-deep freshwater pond, now a concrete plaza — into a tiny slice of what once was; after the jump, find out more about how and why. Read More »