Project: Invasive Species
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Artist: Dillon Marsh
Year: 2014
Artist website: http://dillonmarsh.com
Project Description: I n 1996 a palm tree appeared almost overnight in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. This was supposedly one of the world’s first disguised cell phone tower. Since then these trees have spread across the city, the country and the rest of the world. Invasive Species explores the relationship between the environment and the disguised towers of Cape Town and its surrounds.
Featured in Scenario 4: Building the Urban Forest
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