Artist Amanda Williams and a small army of friends and neighbors participated in an act of faith and reclamation in Washington Park. In the footprint of nearly two dozen lost buildings, they planted 100,000 red tulip bulbs. BlackVoicesWTTW
Last fall, artist Amanda Williams and a small army of friends and neighbors participated in an act of faith and reclamation in the Washington Park neighborhood. In the footprint of nearly two dozen lost buildings, they planted 100,000 red tulip bulbs around the intersection of 53rd Street and Prairie Avenue. The project, titled ““Just from a color standpoint, red is always going to be arresting and — to get very dorky — it’s the compliment of green,” Williams said.
“Sometimes I’ll come upon a vantage point of it that I didn’t expect or didn’t realize intersects with it,” Williams said. “So I’ll pull over, I’ll stop and someone will say, ‘Can you believe it?’ or ‘Isn’t that beautiful?’ or ‘I love that red that you can see in the distance.’ I had a woman yesterday actually come and introduce herself and say, ‘I walk out of my door, and I see this and it just changes my whole day.
Williams said the vacant lots are a mix of public and privately owned land, but she’s not too worried that development is coming anytime soon. “I don’t really see any rush on any of their parts to develop it, but there is an ephemerality about it that then also means if that were to happen, do people feel empowered to push back in a way that they wouldn’t had something just started this spring?” Williams said. “It’s also really interesting to think about who people think good things are for.
Williams also developed a robust set of educational resources related to this project, all available for free download on the “Redefining Redlining”
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