8-Foot Knit Alligator Eating Trump To Appear Over Gowanus Canal

Park Slope NY

23 October, 2020

12:58 PM

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GOWANUS, BROOKLYN — An alligator is coming to the Gowanus Canal. But don't worry, it only has an appetite for one person — President Donald Trump. The eight-foot creature, knit from neon pink yarn, will appear at the canal, a knit-version of the president in its choppers, on Saturday as part of an ongoing art exhibit by Ellie d'Eustachio. The exhibit, titled "Made by Ellie," will be at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse until Nov. 29. Presented by art group Domingo Comms, it features pieces from D'Eustachio's ongoing street art series "Eat The Monsters," which has brought similar knit creatures "having the president for lunch" on scaffolding across Brooklyn and Manhattan. "This is the first time the Brooklyn community will have the chance to take home part of Ellie's series which made such an impactful, colorful statement in our streets." Domingo Comms Founder Veronica Petty said. "It's the opportunity to own a piece of local history." The colorful creatures — which include a shark, a crab and dinosaurs — are meant to be a form of "confrontation and escapism" for 2020, according to a release. They will each be for sale, along with print editions of the knit pieces. "Politics and knitting are longtime friends and I'm honored to bring street art into that mix in Brooklyn," says d'Eustachio on her upcoming show, "I hope this collection will help push us through hard times with fantasy and humor." One of the pieces to be featured at the exhibit will be a six-foot wall of knit flowers that was used as the backdrop for the theater show "Quince." The exhibit will also come with a series of events at the Boathouse discussing street art culture, performance and knitting as an art-form, the first of which will be "Quince" writer Camilo Quiroz-Vazquez and director, Ellpetha Tsivicos, in celebration of Day of the Dead on Oct. 30. The alligator, which will be set up overlooking the Canal, won't be the first time an art piece inspired by the commander and chief has made its way to the waterway. An angry-looking statue of the president floated on the Gowanus waters almost exactly a year ago.