taking it to the streets

it was getting down to crunch time with this bad boy. classrooms and buildings are beginning to get cleared out for the senior show, and any work stored in the station building pretty much has to be removed this weekend. in my head, i had this vision of recruiting the roomies and wheeling the 300 pound monstrosity back to my dorm. needless to say, we didn't get very far. today, with the help of some generous classmates, we drove around the city looking for a home for it. (or as kwok-pan put it, a place to abandon my baby.)

the class is called "concrete culture: city as text" so it was important to me from the start that what i made would live out in baltimore somewhere. documentation wise, i never intended pictures to only be taken in the classroom. working with the city wide open as a canvas, i had honed in on the slivers of vacant lots among rows and rows of homes in baltimore. there was just something so intriguing about the stark change from presence to absence (even though the homes around are often abandoned and un-occupied as well.) the stretch of houses that we found (20th between gilford and barclay) was entirely boarded up/sealed with cinder block on the left side of the street. it's pretty unbelievable.

expect a slew of projects and posts in the next week in an attempt to wrap this semester up...