How to Canceive an Art Exhibit – Traveler Bill-Og Archive

For those of you that aren’t fortunate enough to spend a great deal of time in the World Financial Center like I am, you may not be aware of “Canstruction NYC.” They are, according to their website…

a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that holds annual design and build competitions to construct fantastic, giant sized, structures made entirely out of canned food. In each city after the structures are built and the winners declared the creations go on view to the general public as giant art exhibits. At the close of the competition all of the Cansculptures^TMare dismantled food used in the structures is donated to the local food banks for distribution to community emergency feeding programs.

Now I have been lurking around this area for years and I seem to recall the structures being free standing without the aid of platforms, wire structures and packing tape. I’ll wager that the farm that a careless foreign visitor or blackberrying businessman walked into, and thereby destroyed some poor artists hours of blood sweat and tears.

I walked through the World Financial Center recently and captured the following images.

Here is the Jefferson Memorial…