The micro-farming component is obvious – Sharecropper proves anyone can grow food in the smallest and most challenging of places. But how does Gauthier’s citywide planting qualify as public art? Like Relational Art, she explains, in which “an artist presents circumstances, and it takes viewers to complete it,” Sharecropper will be completed by many hands, not to mention the whole host of factors that affect any kind of farming effort – weather, animal threats and quality of care.
Speak up: is anything like this happening in your community?