Anxiety Flag (Lean-to)

Sari Nordman

Bowne Playground (Union Street & Sanford Avenue, Flushing, Queens)

Spring/Summer 2025

A Contribution to 2024-2025 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) of the Korea Art Forum: A Series of Community-based Artistic Interventions in Public Space.

Woven using knotting techniques and crafted from recycled plastic film strips, the work addresses the issues of single-use plastics and their impact on nature and people. The title, Anxiety, refers to eco-anxiety and the soothing effects of the fiber art process.

About Korea Art Forum (KAF)

Founded in New York City in 2013, KAF is led by artists, scholars, and peacemakers committed to bridging the world through art. The organization supports artists' social engagement and enhances people’s quality of life and well-being. It produces commissions, presentations, forums, publications, and art workshops to bring people together to share dialogues, build an interconnected world, and support inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

Thank You!

Funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the work was developed through social engagement at Shared Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS), a participatory art series organized by the Korea Art Forum at parks or streets in Flushing (Queens), Harlem (Manhattan), and Mt. Hope and Mott Haven (Bronx). Presented by the New York City Department of Transportation Art program (NYC DOT Art) in partnership with the Korea Art Forum.