De-Paving

5 Steps to Depaving
(from this article about depaving. http://depave.org/index.php/how-to-depave/)

1. Plan of attack
2. Select the right tools
3. Break up the asphalt
4. Remove the asphalt
5. Restore the soil

Removing asphalt can improve the quality of a space from as big as a retail parking lot, to as small as your back yard.

Nature, Asphalt, and Art in Boston

Think there is no nature in a parking lot in Boston?

What do you hear? What do you see? How can the temporary, and what was natural be unnatural and yet be art here in this space? Isn't the wind pleasant (now that we don't have to feel its effects)?

I used cut flowers and packed snow to "plant" flowers in asphalt, in Boston, in January. I watched and heard the flowers be affected by nature. Then I saw how people reacted with confused looks, and how they got run over by the owner of the parking space behind. Nature is ever-changing and dynamic. So are people. Maybe that's why we like nature.