Bonnie Ora Sherk

Crossroads Community (the farm) 1976 Dia / transparency 35 mm.
“Portable Park IV - past-present-future = A Living Library,”Bonnie Ora Sherk,
photo made by Susan Slade Sanchez

“Portable Park IV - past-present-future = A Living Library,” is the work of Bonnie Ora Sherk, an artist/environmentalist/landscape architect who, in the 1970s, made 24-hour parks in unlikely places, bringing sod, trees, and farm animals into the streets of downtown San Francisco.

Interview with the artist here:
http://blook.bampfa.berkeley.edu/2012/06/q-a-bonnie-ora-sherk-and-the-performance-of-being.html 

Link:
http://www.alivinglibrary.org/