Design
A Block-by-Block Map of Brooklyn, in Garbage
No, Jennifer Maravillas is not crazy. But she does walk the streets picking up interesting pieces of trash.
Jennifer Maravillas is painting a cartographic portrait of Brooklyn. In trash.
The 29-year-old Maravillas is walking the streets of the borough from end to end, picking up a piece of paper garbage from each block, cutting them into neat strips and pasting them onto a 10 by 10-foot map that stretches from Greenpoint to Sea Gate, from Vinegar Hill to East New York. She’s calling it 71 Square Miles, which is the vast measure of this place.