Celebrate the fourth of July with this eccentric conceptual art project by an artist in the UK (who used to live in Park Slope).
“I lived on Garfield for a couple of years back in the 90’s. Miss walking the Dog in Prospect and learning to like coffee on 7th Avenue,” says artist Nathan, who has a website called Ancestry Art.
It’s all very conceptual:Â Nathan is a bonafide conceptual artist from the UK, who uses soil in his paintings to represent all the land (118 counties) of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Each painting contains soil collected from a different county.
The idea is that you can exclusively own your own county and own a part of Britain.
Got it?
Imagine this: you can own land from the county where Shakespeare came from. Or perhaps your ancestors were British. an ancestor. Or just buy up British land before the British grab it. I
Accordint to Nathan, “”t’s the fun way to acquire land without having to use force, coercion, exploitation, ply anyone with whisky, or stick flags in the ground. They say the best investment on earth is earth so I’ve put it into art.”
Check out more images at Nathan’s website.
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