11227 T.Q.M. 4EVER 

11227 was once the joint Zip Code for the adjacent neighborhoods of Bushwick (Brooklyn) and Ridgewood (Queens). After the 1977 NYC  Blackouts, the Ridgewood residents campaigned to dissociate themselves with Bushwick. In 1979 they were finally granted their wish and  each neighborhood got a new zip code. The Ridgewood residents claimed they were able to get lower insurance premiums now that they  were not part of what was at the time a dangerous neighborhood. The Zip Code 11227 disappeared, and an imaginary border was created  between the neighborhoods.

1227 T.Q.M. 4EVER is an installation that seeks to celebrate the area formerly known as 11227. It is comprised of 3 pieces:

1. El amor no se crea ni se destruye, solo se transforma (First Law of Thermodynamics in Spanush): Three sculptures made using old tires provided by a Ridgewood tire shop and silk fabrics dyed with avocado seeds that for  9-months lived as Entrelazado en la fábrica de concreto, a textile installation in a concrete factory in Bushwick made with  Luis Madera, a worker in the factory. The fabrics show the pass of time in the dual extreme environment that represents the  climate of New York City and the concrete factory itself. The name alludes to the first law of thermodynamics: energy cannot  be created or destroyed, only transformed.  

2. Cornelio’s Harvest: A sculpture made using avocado seeds saved during May and June by Cornelio Quechotl, a long-time collaborator of  Fragmentario who works in a supermarket in Bushwick and a frame gifted by a street seller in Ridgewood. 

3. Making & Unmaking With Luis and Cornelio: A video showing the collaboration process with Luis Madera and Cornelio Quechotl

Brooklyn, New York