For those of you who don’t know, skewville was an actual place. It was first inhab­ited by Ad & twin brother, Droo,circa 1996. Skewville was coined orig­i­nally for its warped struc­ture as well as their crooked sense. In some cir­cles, the word “Skewville” now stands for a spe­cific style or even places beyond the orig­i­nal structure.

Why were you inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing in The Putting Lot? Does it relate to work you’ve done in the past?

Being a res­i­dent of Bush­wick I am excited to see some­thing like this hap­pen­ing in the neigh­bor­hood and wanted to be a part of it. I also work in Bush­wick as an Artist, My work­shop is in the base­ment of Fac­tory Fresh, an art gallery, that me and my part­ner run. So, liv­ing and work­ing in Bush­wick leaves only thing left to do, play.

What is the inspi­ra­tion for your design? How does it relate to urban sustainability?

My Idea is to incor­po­rate the cor­ner bodega into the land­scape of the putting lot. But not just any bodega, one that show­cases var­i­ous types of street art. The Bode­gas are the sta­ples in many urban com­mu­ni­ties, but with the bad econ­omy more and more stores and fac­to­ries are going out of busi­ness. The con­cept of this Art Bodega is that art is very vital to this new com­mu­nity of artists and gal­leries and that the only way for this area to sus­tain is to sup­port the arts. .

What else would you like to see in an empty space in the city?

Any­thing but condos

Do you have any child­hood mem­o­ries or good sto­ries about minia­ture golf?

We used to play mini golf in a park­ing lot near our house, we used found objects and parked cars as obsta­cles. So this putting lot brings us back to the good old days.

What do you hope to see at The Putting Lot this summer?

un had by all. and maybe some beer.