ABSTRACT
When Hill (then Hill-Montgomery) arrived at the site, the boat, an emblem of a certain economic status not usually associated with the inner city, was unexpectedly already on site, high and dry in a Harlem vacant lot. By adding the picket fence, she brought to bear a series of assumptions about class, race, gentrification, imprisonment, and unknown potential. Twenty-five years later that reading of the site may have been confirmed.
