AMY PEKAL

is dedicated to presenting art through co-authorship and collaboration. In her ongoing artistic-research, she facilitates community interventions located at the intersection of nature and culture to help communities and institutions transition to a climate-just future. She utilizes fieldwork and qualitative data to develop paintings, texts, and participatory events which emerge from the research process and operate both as objects to generate discourse and as facilitation tools to build across difference – infrastructures for living as naturecultures

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MY MOTHERS PICKLES
In partnership with the McCarren Demo Garden
McCarren Park, Brooklyn

2022-2024

Research

The McCarren Demo Garden is a space of learning and community stewardship that is year-round, dynamic, and accessible to every age group. Each year, in mid-summer when the cucumbers and dill ripen at the McCarren Demo Garden, My Mother’s Pickles returns to the community of McCarren’s Demo garden stewards. In this gathering, participants learn to ferment cucumbers using an ancestral family recipe.

By engendering care and maintenance as foundations of the community garden, we commit to a practice of radical help. The physical act of just digging into the earth heals and restores our relationship to the living world. By delivering the food we grow to the community fridges, we extend our help beyond the garden’s fence. The work of NBK Mutual Aid at the McCarren Demo Garden is radical and omni-directional; where help is carried from the plants to us, from us to the plants, from the garden to the community, from the community back to the garden. It helps us know our neighbors, it helps us know we call North Brooklyn home.

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