updates (becky slogeris)
i revisted the lee/jackson monument this past weekend, to make my gesture a little more permanent. i used the 3m removable mounting strips (i didn’t want to be completely destructive…) to mount acrylic brochure holders to the front of the monument containing the how-to books from before.
and thanks to dylan and dimitri, i was able to take that 300lb beast out from the context of the station building and into the city. while i was working on it, i had the slivers of vacant lots among the streets of endless row homes in mind. there was something about the stark change from presence to absence (even if the homes around are often abandoned and un-occupied as well) that got me looking at opposites in the first place, and trying to manifest that 3-dimensionally. it’s final resting place is on a vacant lot on 20th (between gilford and barclay). everything on the left side of the street was entirely boarded up/sealed with cinder block.
