ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 11月1日 04時17分

About 140 years ago, a botanist named Addison Brown noticed an unfamiliar plant growing around Red Hook, Brooklyn. As ships arrived, they dumped thousands of tons of ballast — earth and stones used to stabilize ships — carrying seeds from far-off lands. The red plant was Amaranthus crispus, or amaranth, which is native to South America. Now, “Seeds of Change,” an exhibition by the artist Maria Thereza Alves, uses plants like these to highlight the city’s hidden past. Maria has spent nearly 2 decades uncovering long-buried colonial histories using ballast seeds, which can lie dormant in the soil for hundreds of years. “I liked the idea that these plants were witnesses to things we would never understand, to paths of trade that we no longer have information about,” she told our reporter @correality. Maria, who lives in Berlin, visited NYC twice to do research. The first thing she learned: how little of New York is actually New York. Low-lying areas and marshland were commonly filled in with refuse, ashes, sand and ballast. Last week in Red Hook, where Addison Brown made his discoveries so long ago, @karstenmoran photographed this #amaranth, which is still growing wild in Red Hook. Visit the link in our profile to see more photos.

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