CasaLin is a private house in Wynwood, but during Art Basel its yard becomes an outdoor art gallery. (The place is owned by Miami collector Lin Lougheed, who rents it to an amenable family.) During the Basel hullabaloo, the yard offers a welcome respite.

This year's instillation features works by six local artists who have reworked materials in ways other than originally intended. Ralph Provisero uses jet fairings as planters bursting with flame-like crotons. Frances Trombly ''toilet papers'' a tree with strips of cotton she has embroidered as part of her ongoing exploration of throwaways. Metto Tommerup creates a haven-within-a-haven by draping an existing hut with epiphytes. Leyden Rodriguez Casanova makes a play on painter Frank Stella with a geometric-patterned deck in a working-class rendition of minimalism. Julie Davidow said she worked her fingers to the bone making her spider's web of manila rope, which will disintegrate and return to the Earth.

The biggest piece is by Robert Chambers, who has welded two 1930s John Deere Model A Unstyled tractors face to face. He found one in Illinois and one in Idaho; both still function on just about any fuelimaginable, he said. The idea is both bridge and impass, a reference to the Depression era and a symbol of hope from the workhorse machines. ''They still work perfectly,'' he said.

-- JANE WOOLDRIDGE

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