Australian artist CJ Hendry was forced to move her Flower Market installation of 100,000 "plush flowers" overnight from a New York City island to a Brooklyn warehouse due to overcrowding.
The Flower Market installation took place over a September weekend and was, at first, located on an embankment of the Louis Kahn-designed FDR Four Freedoms State Park memorial on Roosevelt Island.
Artist CJ Hendry created a "Flower Market" installation located on Roosevelt Island in New York City
Open from 13 to 15 September, the event was shut down by police on the second day due to overcrowding and was moved overnight to a studio in Brooklyn's Industry City.
New York-based CJ Hendry apologised for the closure in an Instagram reel posted to her page on 14 September, promising visitors "we're finding a new location, we're building a new exhibit overnight". Boxes of "flowers" lined a greenhouse
The installation was re-installed in a large, industrial space in Brooklyn's Industry City, where it "ran smoothly" over the course of 15 September, according to the New York Post.
"Industry City for Sunday was a great shift because it's this creative hub, and it gave the final day a different vibe ? more industrial, more grounded, but still very much alive," Hendry told Dezeen.
Flower Market was originally designed for the FDR Four Freedoms State Park memorial, designed in 1974 by architect Louis Kahn and completed in 2012 to honour a 1941 ...