Art in Public Places

"Pasqualina Azzarello an artist from the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, likes to distribute her work through unorthodox channels; she once painted 500 rocks she had gathered from the waterfront, then took nighttime walks around the neighborhood to leave them where people would discover them in the morning.
One night in March, she set out for the corner of Front and Jay Streets, where a 32-story residential tower is going up, on a similar mission. She took paintings of flowers that she had made on pieces of wood, propped the pictures up against the construction fence and slipped away, hoping they would be carried off to happy homes.
The people who found Ms. Azzarello's paintings early the next morning happened to be the site construction workers, and they did not snatch the artwork away as she had expected. Instead, they screwed the pictures to the site's blue plywood fence, just down from the building permits."
from an article in the NY Times in August, 2006