Strip

Courtesy of Horton Gallery, New York, NY
Saul Becker

Image courtesy of the artist.

.Image courtesy of the artist.

Many of us are familiar with bronzed baby shoes as childhood memorials. Brooklyn-based artist Saul Becker gathers weeds and other plants growing in the nooks and crannies of the sidewalks and vacant lots around his studio and uses a similar process, electroplating, to memorialize the persistence and beauty of commonplace plant life in even the densest of urban environments.