Earthwork (2009)

In 1994 reallife crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattans Upper West Side to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned by Donald Trump The multiacre artwork was made from soil rock plants and vegetation near an underground railway tunnel Stan recruited a number of homeless individuals living in the tunnel to become his crew Over the months it took to complete the earthwork Stan dealt with a myriad of difficulties in bringing his unique rural art form to an urban canvas and the many costs his art exacted upon his life In the process he unexpectedly encountered the true meaning of his art and its ultimate lasting rewards