silver gelatin print
“For my piece I decided to go right to my backyard and photograph my topic, gentrification. I noticed this was a problem when one day I went to play tennis and one of the courts had been turned into a mini-FCC soccer field. Mind you the tennis courts were already cracked, dirty, and untaken care of, very similar to the larger soccer field right
behind it. The mini field was useless because the people had just placed down large pieces of turf and put up some mini plastic goals and a ton of FCC posters everywhere. They paid more attention to the posters and making sure people knew they “donated” it rather than the actual quality of the field. So, when I was assigned this project, I thought it would be
perfect to go photograph the tennis courts and the mini field right beside it. Come to find out they had redone the tennis courts yet the large field behind all of this was still in terrible shape. I wanted to encapsulate this story by layering film images of the newly done tennis courts and the field. Gentrification is a large problem everywhere.”
ARTIST BIO: Sasha WOODARD is a student at Summit Country Day School studying art under art teacher Carrie Barnett.