Word: wheatfield
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...Yorkers with an urge to keep the concrete at bay usually settle for sooty geraniums on a windowsill. Not Agnes Denes, 43, a New York conceptual artist. Her creation, only six blocks from the bustle of the World Trade Center, is a two-acre wheatfield. Shifting and shimmering as the sun and harbor breezes play across it, the minifarm lends an improbable air of Manhattan, Kans., to lower Manhattan...
...idea behind the project, Denes says, was to devise "an intrusion of the country into the metropolis, the world's richest real estate. To grow a wheatfield on it, seemingly such a waste of precious space, is to create a powerful paradox: the congestion of the city of competence, sophistication and crime against the open fields and unspoiled farm lands...
...Manhattan wheatfield has created its own environment. Says Denes: "We have praying mantises, spiders that change color to resemble the wheat-Day-Glo yellow and brown-fireflies and a sweet country smell." They also have a harvest of problems. The wheat contracted a blight called wheat smut, plus mildew from the early summer rains. John Ameroso, a Cornell University agronomist who is Denes' horticultural adviser, says the crop is "distressed" and must be harvested early...
...yanked temporarily, and other jobs proved scarce. "I was blacklisted and put down for what I believed in," she says. "People finally realized that I was being mistreated." The TV show, produced by Anita Bryant Ministries, blends "wholesome entertainment, God and country" and ranges from West Point to a wheatfield in Bryant's native Oklahoma to Valley Forge, where she sings The Battle Hymn of the Republic in pouring rain...
...reds and pastels in others; now he moves the camera, now the subject. Pianos eat, and heads move independent of bodies; this strange world defies definition, adding a new dimension to Parisian impressionism: the paintings can move. The film ends with a stunning reproduction of a Van Gogh wheatfield; a flock of ravens flies to the foreground and the frame freezes...