Jason Middlebrook's mosaic installation, "Brooklyn Seeds," is a monumentally-scaled garden of wildflowers climbing up the stair wall extending from Avenue U to the elevated train platform. Created in glass mosaic, the choice of plants is based on local wildflowers that grow in unlikely places, through cracks in the sidewalk, alleys, and walls. Middlebrook's work explores the place where the urban and human-made intersect with the natural to survive and flourish. These flowers, often weeds, include such local specimens as spotted knapweed, burdock, golden rod, aster, milkweed, and daises. Above many of the mosaic plants are airborne seed pods floating away to germinate, on a journey of their own.

Jason Middlebrook received his BFA from the University of California at Santa Cruz, his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and currently lives and works in Hudson, New York. Middlebrook gathers his creative inspiration from both nature and technology. He transfers their complex relationship into works of sculpture, installation, painting, and large-scale drawing, referencing art historical traditions, styles, and movements. Middlebrook has exhibited his work extensively, including at institutions such as the New Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, MASS MoCA, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among others.