At Occidental Square Park, CMC members worked with hundreds of silver foil gum wrappers, initially used by the gum industry to add value and glitz to their products. CMC subsequently reclaimed cast off wrappers from the margins of parks and city streets during walking meditations, or received them as donations from project supporters.
Seattle’s Occidental Square Park is famous as a popular tourist area, gathering space, and the origin of the phrase “skid row” which referred to a pathway for transporting recently cut down trees and subsequently became synonymous with poverty and homelessness during the Great Depression.
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