Situated in one of Mississippi’s historically significant African American neighborhoods, Farish Street Landing draws on local landscape and vegetal histories as both reference and structure. The project operates as a spatial prompt—part scenography, part urban inquiry—deploying props, symbols, and cultivated planting fields to surface dialogue about the evolving relationship between people, land, and ecology.
Cultivated crops, medicinal herbs, feral shrubs, and native grasses are arranged to reference overlapping agricultural traditions, including those of the Choctaw Nation, the Republic of New Afrika, and European settler practices. Rather than proposing a fixed outcome, the installation functions as a space of arrival and projection, relying on public use and interpretation.
Organized around a central question—how cultural narratives might activate an inclusive and contextually grounded public realm—Farish Street Landing invites residents, artists, and activists to participate in shaping possible futures for the district.
2021
Jackson, Mississippi
Support:
Bloomberg Foundation
Principals:
Anya Sirota, Jean Louis Farges
Design Team:
Liz Feltz
Collaboration:
RVTR
Phase:
Pandemic cancellation