tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36862267924299896772024-03-19T06:02:50.586-07:00West Farms StudioCreated by one of the artists in the Metro Poles: Art in Action exhibit at the BRONX RIVER ART CENTER, and intended as a tool to share information that some of the 20 collaborating artists are working with. It is neither comprehensive, definitive, nor any kind of official pronouncement. Just some in-the-moment bits to facilitate collaboration.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-78949822896658369212008-11-19T21:37:00.000-08:002008-11-19T21:38:17.575-08:006 Strategies<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Because this exhibit is intended to focus on process, blur lines between artworks, and reduce the primacy of the individual artist in favor of a loose integrated net of creativity that blankets the entire gallery - even the act of writing a statement about the individual work could be seen to detract from the exhibit's mission.<br /><br />What follows is therefore, not a concise statement but rather a long rambling description of participation.<br /><br /><br />In the spring of this year I was invited by Jose Ruiz, curator of Bronx River Art Centre (BRAC) and Heng-Gil Han, curator for the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), to submit responses to a set of questions.<br /><br />They were asking a variety of artists to respond to the idea of an exhibit where artists would make work in a gallery setting and then have it subsequently altered by others. Among the questions asked were: "What contribution can you make to this unconventional exhibition?", "Can you allow other artists to revise your installation?", and "Who would be other artists that you would like to invite to the exhibition for the revision and collective art-making?"<br /><br />The resulting exhibit: "Metro Poles, Art in Action", is a curatorial collaboration with Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), the Bronx River Art Centre (BRAC), the Asian American Arts Center (AAAC), and the Maiden Lane Exhibition Space.<br /><br />Among the things I wrote back in my initial response were the following:<br /><br /> "I will photograph in or near the display space - i.e. nearby buildings, back yards, whatever. The available views will function as a filter or organizing principle. This will become the target of research."<br /><br /> "I will then go out on the street and find anecdotal information from passersby (as well as from people employed by the art institution) regarding who lives there, what business is conducted, what events have been witnessed etc."<br /><br /> "In a third step I will do further historical research about the visually identified locations on-line. I will then make a collage from the various information materials, printed with ink jet, in a variety of sizes and textures of paper and post the information on the galley walls, like fliers or even gorilla-style like paper street art."<br /><br /> "All this material, both the physical printing on paper and the conceptual structure surrounding it would then be available as raw materials to use by subsequent artists in any way they see fit. I would simply hope they might function as a launching off point of interest in the creative process going forward."<br /><br />I also invited artists Chang-Jin Lee, Marcy Brafman, and Åsa Elzén to be "team members" for our group, one of seven groups to work in the space.<br /><br />For my part I ultimately adopted 6 strategies, relating to my initial proposal that were designed to explore the Bronx, West Farms, (the neighborhood where BRAC is located), and the area's relationship to the gallery and the mission of the exhibit.</span>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-74642225584696193022008-11-19T21:31:00.000-08:002008-11-19T21:35:37.811-08:00Strategy 6 - Blog and website<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Strategy 6: Blog and website.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br />I created this blog to document my own progress so that other artists in our team could see what was happening, and am also posting materials to a section of a site. In a way though, this can also be seen as another strategy to "network out" the artwork, and a kind of final addition to the work, on my part.<br /></span></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-35522700408086031842008-11-19T21:20:00.000-08:002008-11-19T21:29:21.823-08:00Strategy Five - Interacting<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Strategy Five: Incorporation with other works.<br /><br />I placed an old laptop within an arrangement of refuse, which another artist had put together. The computer displays the text from the "poems" I had created from the earlier documentary material, and so creates another avenue of historical communication, and also relates to the work it is situated in by referring to the problem of e-waist.<br /><br />I Added text comments to artist Marcy Brafman's work, in the areas where the public is invited to participate.<br /><br />I plan to fill in several blanks in mad libs left on the walls by another artist.<br /><br />I created a stick figure comic from one of the many works on paper strewn throughout the gallery, referring to both that work and other art in the gallery, using text from a visitor as inspiration, and which questions what constitutes art.<br /></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkurwdCevStaON-KsY9r6ccTQyUh1c-RZL2-_TFNlgMCLDNoZm97sNLY_is8lWxaNjG9DTODVHcNTyP8WtW5XawLGBP-obw7xTl7Lwz6rs0hEzv6xDYWOg-vlcTMdKfqkc8MrsR4w3Tnk/s1600-h/IMG_0221.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkurwdCevStaON-KsY9r6ccTQyUh1c-RZL2-_TFNlgMCLDNoZm97sNLY_is8lWxaNjG9DTODVHcNTyP8WtW5XawLGBP-obw7xTl7Lwz6rs0hEzv6xDYWOg-vlcTMdKfqkc8MrsR4w3Tnk/s400/IMG_0221.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270606996405925842" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">You can just see the old laptop peeking out on the left...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-71562702191244027152008-11-19T21:05:00.000-08:002008-11-19T21:13:27.308-08:00Changes from Week 2<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">This is Marcy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Brafman</span> on her first day working in the second room.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">The front room actually ended up so full that I decided to post the mapping and comic stuff in this room with Marcy's work instead of in the front room. The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">jpeg</span> image stuff and the texts as well as a few stray bits of comics stayed in the first room.</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNjhyoVGh4uDw7JPrfj2LOt8Ow5D04xOzC5v5NpwwZe37LFa5DAAPfJs5-a4HqTQirrzWlCUwBjOk_ZiQbWkmCYJvjxivh2UmqqXKAnCP1tuhdnEFDLSQKJXGeWCRFx-nsjNWD6H9w9M/s1600-h/IMG_2966.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFNjhyoVGh4uDw7JPrfj2LOt8Ow5D04xOzC5v5NpwwZe37LFa5DAAPfJs5-a4HqTQirrzWlCUwBjOk_ZiQbWkmCYJvjxivh2UmqqXKAnCP1tuhdnEFDLSQKJXGeWCRFx-nsjNWD6H9w9M/s400/IMG_2966.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270601800330920354" /></a><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-TMzLhnd4QyYQp0PBB1uNg3hxPOOeR_3nd2ksTNFelYhtZ_R6k7oJszp_HV6uUXtnLttgpJXUFHdH1uZGnzxL7pQjwmbXqYiU5zydvfkftPhnk2ibRqWLe4Td_JSHB3-MUh6aAOT0eE/s1600-h/IMG_2965.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-TMzLhnd4QyYQp0PBB1uNg3hxPOOeR_3nd2ksTNFelYhtZ_R6k7oJszp_HV6uUXtnLttgpJXUFHdH1uZGnzxL7pQjwmbXqYiU5zydvfkftPhnk2ibRqWLe4Td_JSHB3-MUh6aAOT0eE/s400/IMG_2965.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270601786795822194" /></a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Here's the front room. It became even more complex over the ensuing weeks...</span></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-52000833392877289492008-11-19T21:01:00.000-08:002008-11-19T21:04:46.121-08:00Strategy Four - Mapping<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Strategy Four: Mapping and modeling the neighborhood<br /><br />Using a data projector I traced a street map of the entire neighborhood of west Farms onto a big 8' x 10' piece of paper and then cut the map roughly out of the center of it and pinned it to the gallery wall. I then recorded impressions about the neighborhood and where I met the people who became part of the comic.<br /><br />Using a ground plan of the BRAC gallery I made a quick 3D computer model of the space and recorded where the first elements of the project were placed in the space.<br /><br />I photographed part of an MTA subway map with my phone, showing West Farms, then emailed it to BRAC while on route to the gallery. Once there, I had them print the email with the map and posted it with the other mapping elements. This related to the personal nature of the work and to the idea of the documentarist or participant-observer including information about themselves within the surroundings being documented.<br /><br />In the same vein, I downloaded an app to my mobile phone allowing me to track my GPS location and record in real time to a version of Google Maps. I posted a printout of one particular tracking event documenting my crossing of the entire length of West Farms, when the MTA train I was taking to the gallery went express and passed my intended stop. I thought, "This must happen all the time, when you live in West Farms."</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLOpsIlfMjp2KLRUtgNtB-5h543Gyz2wZ-wceOOuwgX8UT_v0IdtyHXFX74fHdwjp2G0sji2dUsf6U6uKlzwi8HMfOP8Vns1Ox1J9vd7c4eZOAllxfw53kYOJhF4tZQBkeH9yEUInvUdY/s1600-h/IMG_0305.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLOpsIlfMjp2KLRUtgNtB-5h543Gyz2wZ-wceOOuwgX8UT_v0IdtyHXFX74fHdwjp2G0sji2dUsf6U6uKlzwi8HMfOP8Vns1Ox1J9vd7c4eZOAllxfw53kYOJhF4tZQBkeH9yEUInvUdY/s400/IMG_0305.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270600822727404962" /></a><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITXQ4H6L-qpOkvNTHIBgqflN2F7qASZDFSyVjaTTbrsegXNxTYKN1PkAxPCwWYoQVW1ZpetjnV92CxFh3AXogO9AVs4dct4OEMhzEG5Zv7cWqn9GxTYUbxtxcqsVz-RRF8jXz2-lNK-4/s1600-h/IMG_0312.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITXQ4H6L-qpOkvNTHIBgqflN2F7qASZDFSyVjaTTbrsegXNxTYKN1PkAxPCwWYoQVW1ZpetjnV92CxFh3AXogO9AVs4dct4OEMhzEG5Zv7cWqn9GxTYUbxtxcqsVz-RRF8jXz2-lNK-4/s400/IMG_0312.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270600816047335234" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-84743988584299100362008-11-19T20:54:00.000-08:002008-11-19T20:59:40.847-08:00Strategy Three - Comics<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Strategy Three: Non-linear story telling, through the use of Comics<br /><br />I have little connection to the world of comics, and never read them as a kid. I came at the format from video art, looking for a way to accomplish similar results, but in a form that allows the viewer more leeway in the amount of time they devote to the process. Still images allow more immediate intake.<br /><br />The text for the comics comes not from the net research, (as is the case with many of my past projects) but from things that people actually said to me. This is combined with photos that are digitally reworked to become a sort of cartoon or comic book, printed in non archival inks on 13"x19" mat ink jet paper and pinned to the gallery wall. Various walks as well as interviews with gallery staff and local patrons provided the materials. Some responses also came from emailed questions to specific participants.<br /></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTyd4ftZe0uqVepAaVDWN1LT0KAATrJVmJG4RldbKHI8EDj-qdleGP3nd1I6armQ9JU0LY1FNNk-Gu69yvQTX80xDSVrpd3lUPF8GdNBsShBR0wtCayblDHZ0FDz3j1LImjgzzqaq0iKY/s1600-h/Page_08.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTyd4ftZe0uqVepAaVDWN1LT0KAATrJVmJG4RldbKHI8EDj-qdleGP3nd1I6armQ9JU0LY1FNNk-Gu69yvQTX80xDSVrpd3lUPF8GdNBsShBR0wtCayblDHZ0FDz3j1LImjgzzqaq0iKY/s400/Page_08.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270599525473656610" /></a><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZc4jLziczbdrkYEkqvuvONZ-d5TNED_8AosiV-m2o5Jcslr4aiV9cpBUjvInfqb_DHBJjOoFQ8SLFkVlFnwf-YkH3FavfgU43txpNv7U4NxtAAxQmwxBdBD2dofH2FxM2dhpmKZ7YVKY/s1600-h/Page_07.jpg"></a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZc4jLziczbdrkYEkqvuvONZ-d5TNED_8AosiV-m2o5Jcslr4aiV9cpBUjvInfqb_DHBJjOoFQ8SLFkVlFnwf-YkH3FavfgU43txpNv7U4NxtAAxQmwxBdBD2dofH2FxM2dhpmKZ7YVKY/s1600-h/Page_07.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZc4jLziczbdrkYEkqvuvONZ-d5TNED_8AosiV-m2o5Jcslr4aiV9cpBUjvInfqb_DHBJjOoFQ8SLFkVlFnwf-YkH3FavfgU43txpNv7U4NxtAAxQmwxBdBD2dofH2FxM2dhpmKZ7YVKY/s400/Page_07.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270599517266168946" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7uJTZQ6x7R7lLi4bvEF2sljCMPj-2gJsWKMHigceEo5ed9oUMIfQ5gG2ntmmc432PPof3wK4b2yxmwD97fAhx5IxajfcW0mA2upFXU2QgWBubbgnIsR0SE4ND5kHPDGSw1L4tWOyShCw/s1600-h/Page_05.jpg"></a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7uJTZQ6x7R7lLi4bvEF2sljCMPj-2gJsWKMHigceEo5ed9oUMIfQ5gG2ntmmc432PPof3wK4b2yxmwD97fAhx5IxajfcW0mA2upFXU2QgWBubbgnIsR0SE4ND5kHPDGSw1L4tWOyShCw/s1600-h/Page_05.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7uJTZQ6x7R7lLi4bvEF2sljCMPj-2gJsWKMHigceEo5ed9oUMIfQ5gG2ntmmc432PPof3wK4b2yxmwD97fAhx5IxajfcW0mA2upFXU2QgWBubbgnIsR0SE4ND5kHPDGSw1L4tWOyShCw/s400/Page_05.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270599516413318018" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-81193146477123725232008-11-19T20:44:00.000-08:002008-11-19T20:54:18.180-08:00People from the neighborhood<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">These are pics of some of the people I met and interviewed in the neighborhood.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">I decided to go ahead with the comics, but focus on people and what they say, rather than on architecture as I first imagined. I'm looking for material on economics, ethnicity, and cultural change, and also how the relationship of the Bronx River Art Center, to people here in West Farms.</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojUXJJ0mqd1bJwkylOXuFhw4TVyUvB0pNSFNG1eqEjhp0qEQq1CuW2IgCGs0NvFWVXRFc17zBETlXDGhURAs_0rB2dNtOO192r5jiSyJys_8npeTWSaYAy4Em_xYr9-nj74gbV_VxsBI/s1600-h/IMG_2927.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjojUXJJ0mqd1bJwkylOXuFhw4TVyUvB0pNSFNG1eqEjhp0qEQq1CuW2IgCGs0NvFWVXRFc17zBETlXDGhURAs_0rB2dNtOO192r5jiSyJys_8npeTWSaYAy4Em_xYr9-nj74gbV_VxsBI/s400/IMG_2927.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270596981030392626" /></a><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDD5WweRlQ7lGCDs-ShTYeirUBBuwgWNKQb5MEnAw-qodYXJzX7QV2rQp8SogG2JDGIEaQR0WNE6gA36ZsvbU_Q4r8QlgeZ9RAcDCXPU6W_yZ8lJnvWO-XTCeXG0Bhk8CMMFu6BN5RYGM/s1600-h/IMG_2849.jpg"></a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDD5WweRlQ7lGCDs-ShTYeirUBBuwgWNKQb5MEnAw-qodYXJzX7QV2rQp8SogG2JDGIEaQR0WNE6gA36ZsvbU_Q4r8QlgeZ9RAcDCXPU6W_yZ8lJnvWO-XTCeXG0Bhk8CMMFu6BN5RYGM/s1600-h/IMG_2849.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDD5WweRlQ7lGCDs-ShTYeirUBBuwgWNKQb5MEnAw-qodYXJzX7QV2rQp8SogG2JDGIEaQR0WNE6gA36ZsvbU_Q4r8QlgeZ9RAcDCXPU6W_yZ8lJnvWO-XTCeXG0Bhk8CMMFu6BN5RYGM/s400/IMG_2849.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270596976700091330" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWIr_nEvouhZtEmBHvYQp8n4FrL57jnST7221-0xBI4YC27t6T_hXRdAnrKgO3lb5K6Sd_S2Sh-_4nRBONh3MhxwjJdoJz49lKXcv4Sc2ytVBOm63IitgJY-7cRpU3HyYv-1cOafbr5c/s1600-h/IMG_2838.jpg"></a></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWIr_nEvouhZtEmBHvYQp8n4FrL57jnST7221-0xBI4YC27t6T_hXRdAnrKgO3lb5K6Sd_S2Sh-_4nRBONh3MhxwjJdoJz49lKXcv4Sc2ytVBOm63IitgJY-7cRpU3HyYv-1cOafbr5c/s1600-h/IMG_2838.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVWIr_nEvouhZtEmBHvYQp8n4FrL57jnST7221-0xBI4YC27t6T_hXRdAnrKgO3lb5K6Sd_S2Sh-_4nRBONh3MhxwjJdoJz49lKXcv4Sc2ytVBOm63IitgJY-7cRpU3HyYv-1cOafbr5c/s400/IMG_2838.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270596972872008578" /></a><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-34417555228306486962008-11-19T20:14:00.000-08:002008-11-19T20:42:30.322-08:00Strategy Two - Texts<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">I'm ending up posting all this way after I did it but seems like it's worth sharing a bit of it.<br /><br />Strategy Two: Download text related to the history of the Bronx and the neighborhood of West Farms.<br /><br />I chose 9 of the most compelling texts among many dozen I had saved, formatted them in a formal structure designed to be reminiscent of poems, and pinned these to the wall.<br /><br />In most cases, the written work was stripped to ASCII text, every comma was removed and converted to a carriage return, and every period was removed and converted to two carriage returns, to create text block separations, and finally the entire text was hard wrapped to 35 characters, to produce short phrases. I did a bit of clean up for readability, printed the texts and push pinned them to the wall.<br /><br />The texts cover a range of subjects from how the Bronx got its name to the demographics and transportation structure of West Farms.<br /></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifRZhgwmuEq6x10FQRYMz3VVU9r7_ksF-IjuGdyWWiRfkEQ48Rsx1R9XQSp_16zWyGEct5c-cF7PNXtuG2euvOj7oIG8AhkNl0LaB4dF1rutdT5B6IA6R7xaBpWt9vH44nVtS6UIsV57w/s1600-h/IMG_0299.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifRZhgwmuEq6x10FQRYMz3VVU9r7_ksF-IjuGdyWWiRfkEQ48Rsx1R9XQSp_16zWyGEct5c-cF7PNXtuG2euvOj7oIG8AhkNl0LaB4dF1rutdT5B6IA6R7xaBpWt9vH44nVtS6UIsV57w/s400/IMG_0299.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270595168825325490" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-20358032534336579892008-11-19T20:10:00.000-08:002008-11-19T20:23:57.706-08:00Strategy One - Thumbnails<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Strategy One: Gathering images based on a net search for the word "Bronx".</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">I ended up being stuck in bed with the flu all week, so I came in the following week with Marcy Brafman to finish up.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">This was a way to begin to understand the visual history in relation to what people have recorded on the internet, about the Bronx.<br /><br />This doesn't constitute a comprehensive compendium of visual material for two reasons. First, many things visual known and recorded were done by people prior to the world wide web and those people tend to be less connected, and thus fail to get their visual info recorded to a web readable format, and posted. As a result, much of this human visual archive is missing from a current search.<br /><br />Secondly, visual searches are still in the dark ages of technology, or in their infancy. Most digital visual images must be "tagged" with text either in their name, metadata (invisible information attached to the digital visual file) or through some similar structure, in order to show up in a search. Smart search engines may also give some weight to images on web pages titled with the search term or in which text containing the term is laid out in close proximity to an image, but this is obviously a tricky mix to accomplish successfully and thus leaves out much of the valuable information that actually has been posted, but hasn't yet been tagged.<br /><br />There are algorithms (the most effective of which are currently mostly available only to large corporations), which can search for the actual visual elements of an image, or its genuine "mediatic criteria", such as color, luminance etc. These can find an image no matter what it has been tagged, but even these currently cutting edge technologies can only look for an image once they already have a base image to compare, so they can find close matches, but only to images they already know about.<br /><br />All this means that right now, doing a visual search on the Bronx yields a strikingly limited set of results. Nonetheless, it begins to tell some stories about what people, corporations, and organizations valued enough to tag and post.<br /><br />To display I printed a selection of the results, 16 images to a page, on 8 1/2" x 11" ink jet paper, along with the name of each file displayed below it, on 18 pages, and taped them to the gallery wall, much as I might do in my studio.<br /><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTP94MjOizg0kK-WtznA5juBv7ycMmIe39EHGiQWpGh7DV4HnRbov0Qa4rLqZAgh66MJicerKg-TLEszcFqTsHKOKo6S-aI0y0afeKpd9RuUMTZov11Y-0MFMc1ICvX9-ZPdy0tPwd1PU/s1600-h/IMG_0302.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTP94MjOizg0kK-WtznA5juBv7ycMmIe39EHGiQWpGh7DV4HnRbov0Qa4rLqZAgh66MJicerKg-TLEszcFqTsHKOKo6S-aI0y0afeKpd9RuUMTZov11Y-0MFMc1ICvX9-ZPdy0tPwd1PU/s400/IMG_0302.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270587628335771746" /></a><div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-73442952235265736972008-10-28T22:34:00.000-07:002008-10-28T22:38:26.647-07:00West Farms Bronx<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">This is pretty bleak info about the neighborhood. After I left the gallery, I had a great little interview with some high school students at the local </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">MacDonald's. I saw Jose at the gallery today and he showed me some of the stuff they have if we need it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Here's some more text stuff.<br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> West Farms Bronx<br /><br />West Farms is a<br />residential neighborhood<br />geographically located<br />in the west Bronx,<br />New York City.<br /><br />The neighborhood is part of<br />Bronx Community Board 6.<br /><br />Its boundaries,<br />starting from the north and moving<br />clockwise are:<br />Bronx Park<br />to the north,<br /><br />the Bronx River Parkway<br />to the east,<br /><br />the Cross-Bronx Expressway<br />to the south,<br /><br />and the Southern Blvd<br />to the west.<br /><br />East Tremont Avenue is the<br />primary thoroughfare through<br />West Farms.<br /><br />The local subway is the IRT<br />White Plains Road Line (2 5) at<br />West Farms Square -<br />East Tremont Avenue<br />(IRT White Plains Road Line),<br />operating along Boston Road.<br /><br />Zip codes include 10460.<br /><br />The area is patrolled by<br />the 48th Precinct<br />located at<br />450 Cross Bronx Expressway<br />in East Tremont.<br /><br />NYCHA property in the area is<br />patrolled by P. S. A. 8<br />at 2794 Randall Avenue<br />in the Throgs Neck section<br />of the Bronx.<br /><br />Demographics:<br />West Farms<br />has a population over 20,000.<br /><br />For decades<br />West Farms<br />has been one of the poorest communities<br />in America.<br /><br />Over half the population<br />lives below the poverty line<br />and receives public assistance<br />(AFDC,<br />Home Relief,<br />Supplemental Security Income,<br />and Medicaid).<br /><br />West Farms<br />has one of the highest concentrations<br />of Puerto Ricans<br />in all of New York City.<br /><br />The vast majority of households<br />are renter occupied.<br /><br />Land use and terrain:<br />West Farms<br />is dominated by<br />5 and 6-story tenement buildings,<br />older multi-unit homes,<br />vacant lots,<br />and newly constructed subsidized<br />attached multi-unit townhouses<br />and apartment buildings.<br /><br />Most of the original housing stock<br />was structurally damaged by arson<br />and eventually razed<br />by the city.<br /><br />The total land area is less than<br />one square mile.<br /><br />The terrain is somewhat hilly.<br /><br />West Farms Bus Depot:<br />The West Farms Bus Depot is located<br />along East 177th Street<br />next to a terminated<br />Sheridan Expressway.<br /><br />Opened on September 7, 2003<br />on the site of the former<br />Coliseum Depot.<br /><br />Low income public housing projects:<br />There is one<br />NYCHA development located in<br />West Farms.<br />1010 East 178th Street;<br />a 21-story building.<br /><br />Many social problems associated<br />with poverty<br />from crime<br />to drug addiction<br />have plagued the area<br />for some time.<br /><br />Despite crime declines<br />(versus their peaks during the<br />crack and heroin epidemics)<br />violent crime continues to be<br />a serious problem<br />in the community.<br /><br />West Farms<br />has significantly higher<br />drop out rates<br />and incidents of violence<br />in its schools.<br /><br />Students must pass through<br />metal detectors<br />and swipe ID cards<br />to enter the buildings,<br />reminiscent of a prison environment<br />which many feel<br />encourages bad behavior.<br /><br />Other problems in local schools<br />include low test scores<br />and high truancy rates.<br /><br />Drug addiction is also a serious<br />problem in the community.<br /><br />Due to the lucrative drug trade<br />in the area<br />many addicted reside<br />in the community.<br /><br />Peer pressure among children<br />who come from broken homes<br />contributes to the high rate<br />of usage.<br /><br />Many households in the area<br />are headed by<br />a single mother<br />which contributes to the<br />high poverty rate.<br /><br />Many of these mothers had their<br />children at a very young age<br />and could not properly provide<br />for their children.<br /><br />A significant number of families<br />living in<br />West Farms<br />have been in poverty<br />for generations.<br /><br />The incarceration rate in the area<br />is also very high.<br /><br />Many males in the community<br />have been arrested<br />at least once in their lives.<br /><br />This has a direct correlation to<br />aggressive policing tactics<br />including "sweeps" due to the<br />area's high crime rate.<br /><br />West Farms<br />is home to a significant number<br />of inmates<br />currently held<br />in New York state prison<br />and jail facilities.<br /><br />Urban renewal:<br />After a wave of arson<br />ravaged the low income communities<br />of New York City<br />throughout the 1970s,<br />most residential structures in<br />West Farms<br />were left seriously damaged<br />or destroyed.<br /><br />The city began to rehabilitate<br />many formerly abandoned<br />tenement style<br />apartment buildings<br />and designate them<br />low income housing<br />beginning in the late 1970s.<br /><br />Many subsidized<br />attached multi-unit townhouses<br />and newly constructed<br />apartment buildings<br />have been or are being built<br />on vacant lots<br />across the neighborhood.<br /><br />This particular neighborhood<br />is known for its<br />illegal sex trade,<br />primarily street level<br />prostitution.<br /><br />West Farms<br />is often considered<br />part of the socioeconomic<br />South Bronx.<br /><br /><br /><br />.</span></div></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-84162296495011612572008-10-28T22:31:00.000-07:002008-10-28T22:33:33.006-07:00Bronx Before 1914<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Some more text research. By the way, I didn't change anything today at the space... </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> Bronx Before 1914<br /><br />The development of<br />the Bronx<br />is directly connected<br />to its strategic location<br />between New England and<br />New York (Manhattan)<br /><br />Control over the bridges<br />across the Harlem River<br />plagued the period of<br />British colonial rule<br /><br />Kingsbridge<br />built in 1693<br />where Broadway reached<br />the Spuyten Duyvil Creek<br />was a possession<br />of the lords of<br />Philipse Manor<br /><br />The tolls they charged<br />were resented by<br />Bronx farmers<br />with crops and cattle to sell<br />in New York<br /><br />It was angry farmers<br />who built a<br />"free bridge"<br />across the Harlem River<br />which led to the abandonment<br />of tolls<br />altogether<br /><br /><br /><br />The territory<br />now contained within<br />Bronx County<br />was originally part of<br />Westchester County<br />one of the<br />12 original counties<br />of the English Province of<br />New York<br /><br />The present<br />Bronx County<br />was contained in the town of<br />Westchester<br />and parts of the towns<br />of Yonkers<br />Eastchester<br />and Pelham<br /><br />In 1846<br />a new town<br />West Farms<br />was created by division of<br />Westchester<br />in turn<br />in 1855<br />the town of Morrisania<br />was created<br />from West Farms<br /><br />In 1873<br />the town of<br />Kingsbridge<br />roughly corresponding to the<br />modern Bronx neighborhoods<br />of Kingsbridge<br />Riverdale<br />and Woodlawn<br />was established within<br />the former borders of<br />Yonkers<br /><br />The consolidation of<br />the Bronx<br />into New York City<br />proceeded in<br />two stages<br /><br />In 1873<br />the state legislature annexed<br />Kingsbridge<br />West Farms<br />and Morrisania<br />to New York<br /><br />Effective in 1874<br />the three towns<br />were abolished<br />in the process<br /><br />On January 1, 1898<br />the consolidated<br />City of New York<br />was born, including<br />the Bronx<br />as one of the five distinct<br />Boroughs<br /><br />At the same time<br />the Bronx's territory moved from<br />Westchester County<br />into New York County<br />which already contained<br />Manhattan<br />and the rest of pre-1874<br />New York City<br /><br />On April 19, 1912<br />those parts of<br />New York County<br />which had been annexed from<br />Westchester County<br />in the past decades<br />were newly constituted as<br />Bronx County<br />the 62nd and last county<br />to be created by the state<br />effective in 1914<br /><br />Bronx County's courts<br />opened for business<br />on January 2, 1914<br />the same day that<br />John P. Mitchel<br />started work as Mayor of<br />New York City<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-27774317297305441372008-10-28T22:28:00.000-07:002008-10-28T22:30:50.646-07:0010452.us Bronx, NY<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">This is some of my text research. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">10452.us Bronx, NY<br />(Highlights)<br /><br />The Bronx is New York City's<br />northernmost borough<br />coterminous with<br />Bronx County<br /><br />It is the only one of the<br />city's five boroughs<br />situated primarily<br />on the United States<br />mainland<br />rather than on an island<br /><br />If all five boroughs were<br />independent cities<br />the Bronx would rank as the<br />ninth most populous city<br />in the United States<br /><br />The Bronx is the<br />fourth most populous of<br />New York City's<br />five boroughs<br /><br />Although commonly known as<br />"The Bronx"<br />The official county name<br />does not include<br />the definite article<br />"The"<br /><br />The name refers to<br />the Bronx River<br />and rivers are<br />commonly referred to<br />with the article "The"<br />(e.g. "the Hudson")<br /><br />The Bronx was called <br />Rananchqua<br />by the native<br />Siwanoy people<br />a band of the<br />Lenape peoples<br />while other Native Americans<br />knew The Bronx as<br />Keskeskeck<br /><br />The land was<br />first settled by Europeans<br />in 1639<br />when Jonas Bronck<br />for whom the area was later named<br />established a farm<br />along the Harlem River<br /><br />The Dutch and English settlers<br />referred to the area as<br />"Bronck's Land"<br /><br />The territory now contained within<br />Bronx County<br />was originally part of<br />Westchester County<br /><br />In 1846, a new town <br />West Farms<br />was created by secession from<br />Westchester<br />in turn, in 1855<br />the town of Morrisania seceded from<br />West Farms<br /><br />In 1874<br />the western portion of<br />the present Bronx County<br />consisting of the towns of<br />Kingsbridge<br />West Farms<br />and Morrisania<br />was transferred to<br />New York County<br />and in 1895 the<br />Town of Westchester<br />and portions of<br />Eastchester and Pelham<br />were transferred to<br />New York County<br /><br />In 1898<br />the amalgamated City of New York<br />was created<br />including<br />the Bronx<br />as one of its five boroughs<br /><br />In 1914<br />those parts of the then<br />New York County<br />which had been annexed from<br />Westchester County<br />in the past decades<br />were newly constituted as<br />Bronx County<br />while keeping its status as a<br />borough of New York City<br /><br />The Bronx<br />underwent rapid growth<br />after World War I<br /><br />Extensions of<br />the New York City Subway<br />contributed to the increase in<br />population as thousands of<br />immigrants flooded<br />the Bronx<br />resulting in a major boom in<br />residential construction<br /><br />Among these groups<br />many Irish<br />and Italians<br />but especially Jews<br />settled here<br /><br />In addition<br />French<br />German <br />and Polish<br />immigrants<br />moved into the borough<br /><br />The Jewish population<br />also increased notably <br />during this time<br />and many synagogues<br />still exist<br />throughout the borough<br />although many of these<br />have been converted<br />to other uses<br /><br />In prohibition days<br />bootleggers and gangs<br />ran rampant in<br />the Bronx<br /><br />Mostly Irish<br />and Italian<br />immigrants<br />smuggled in<br />the illegal whiskey<br /><br />By 1926<br />the Bronx<br />was noted<br />for its high crime rate<br />and its many<br />speakeasies<br /><br />After the 1930s<br />the Irish immigrant population<br />in the Bronx<br />decreased as a result of<br />better living conditions<br />in New York suburbs<br />and in other states<br /><br />The German population<br />followed suit<br />in the 1940s<br /><br />So did many Italians<br />in the 1950s<br />and Jewish-Americans<br />in the 1960s<br /><br />As the generation of<br />the 1930s retired<br />many moved to<br />southeastern Florida<br />west of Fort Lauderdale<br />and Palm Beach<br /><br />Today there is a thriving<br />Hispanic community<br />mostly Puerto Rican<br />and Dominican<br />as well as African and<br />African-American<br />populations<br /><br />During the mid-1960s<br />to the mid-1970s<br />the Bronx<br />went into an era of<br />sharp decline<br />in the residents'<br />quality of life<br /><br />Urban renewal projects<br />in the borough<br />(such as Robert Moses'<br />Cross-Bronx Expressway)<br />destroyed existing<br />low-density neighborhoods<br />in favor of roads that produced<br />urban sprawl<br />as well as high-density<br />housing projects<br /><br />Another factor<br />may have been the reduction<br />by insurance companies<br />and banks<br />in offering mortgages<br />to some areas of<br />the Bronx<br />a process known as<br />Redlining<br /><br />A wave of arson<br />overtook the southern portion<br />of the borough's<br />apartment buildings<br /><br />Some point to the heavy traffic<br />and use of illicit drugs<br />among the area's poor<br />as causing them to be<br />inclined to scam<br />the city's benefits<br />for burn-out victims<br />as well as the<br />Section 8 housing program<br /><br />Others believe landlords<br />decided to<br />burn their buildings<br />before their insurance policies<br />expired<br />and were not<br />renewed<br /><br />After the destruction<br />of many buildings<br />in the South Bronx<br />the arsons<br />all but ended<br />by the mid 1980s<br /><br />The infamous crack epidemic<br />continued into the<br />early 1990s<br /><br />Since the early 1990s<br />much development has occurred<br /><br />Groups affiliated with<br />South Bronx churches<br />have built the<br />Nehemiah Homes<br />with about 1,000 units<br /><br />This and other developments<br />have transformed the<br />south Bronx<br />and the ripple effects<br />are felt<br />borough-wide<br /><br />While the Bronx<br />still contains the<br />poorest congressional district<br />in the mainland US<br />crime has dropped substantially<br />from the burned-out days<br />of the 1970s and 1980s<br /><br />This is due primarily<br />to community members<br />working to<br />take the community back<br />and build it up<br />once again<br /><br />The resurgence in housing<br />has led some single-family homes<br />in the East Bronx<br />to be replaced by<br />multi-family homes<br /><br />As a result<br />the IRT White Plains Road Line<br />has experienced increased<br />ridership<br /><br />The Bronx is<br />almost entirely<br />situated on the<br />North American mainland<br />but it also includes<br />several small islands<br />in the East River and<br />Long Island Sound<br /><br />The Hudson River separates<br />the Bronx<br />from New Jersey to its west<br />the Harlem River separates it<br />from the island of Manhattan<br />to the southwest<br />the East River separates it<br />from Queens to the southeast<br />and Long Island Sound<br />separates it from Nassau County<br />to the east<br /><br />Westchester County is directly<br />north of the Bronx<br /></span></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-23841700456239294002008-10-27T23:24:00.001-07:002008-10-27T23:34:26.275-07:00First Day of Work - Details<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">You can see I didn't even spell check. Text is just place holder at this point. I may continue with the comic idea or drop it. I should probably know by tomorrow. I still have to sort out how to get the mapping element I want to manifest itself in the project.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">I did two interviews today, some bus drivers, and also met someone from a nearby school.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">I may post some of the text research here on the blog too.</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSSgw6La1dGxn2yTP4wy6VGbk51pO_ApCUkmCbnjgroExQ4oLN-9mDSGwIR7izx7f15UWQcuNw3w6BGk1-KERh6W1WVSMxtj60FBcWfNzkCLGX94dwHiwjUfLZF-EgPWVSR9eDjZb8T4/s1600-h/SampleComic-sm.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSSgw6La1dGxn2yTP4wy6VGbk51pO_ApCUkmCbnjgroExQ4oLN-9mDSGwIR7izx7f15UWQcuNw3w6BGk1-KERh6W1WVSMxtj60FBcWfNzkCLGX94dwHiwjUfLZF-EgPWVSR9eDjZb8T4/s400/SampleComic-sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262088046981037138" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPzYyOIQiHOZnXhSukDYMjtBrfpMDXs0jBoub_0IH415_mcVkPaykVtps7xRUJtIqCZymUmI5HgJtrmJikGIXRXKOIik4_9_zG1JHR0tu610Nu3ZL499d4ll39LD9tHYSDgRRE0IicWEE/s1600-h/IMG_2845.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPzYyOIQiHOZnXhSukDYMjtBrfpMDXs0jBoub_0IH415_mcVkPaykVtps7xRUJtIqCZymUmI5HgJtrmJikGIXRXKOIik4_9_zG1JHR0tu610Nu3ZL499d4ll39LD9tHYSDgRRE0IicWEE/s400/IMG_2845.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262088041659533154" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1pD1Mc4I6uPZORZ9XXKW5YxD9EXypxEk9ncht5sQFWLanzspO72zKJgTQj1bWNvrChSTGx902uDxTt-B755RD4-vKb1eFha_a6BYSub5vuhfPprxp794IxMponaBvfl4mtgDVNTZuqA/s1600-h/IMG_2844.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1pD1Mc4I6uPZORZ9XXKW5YxD9EXypxEk9ncht5sQFWLanzspO72zKJgTQj1bWNvrChSTGx902uDxTt-B755RD4-vKb1eFha_a6BYSub5vuhfPprxp794IxMponaBvfl4mtgDVNTZuqA/s400/IMG_2844.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262088036728943170" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGXDbX5sGyQMBPFhoJ63j1Rd7cfaKTA2cWJH3cEqWsn-GTa9RwXpNrpPZ2lCvz1MTGFUaHUrDYZCjQ6Cpa3hQUx0zNMnQq_2J788UKZ9fG9z-jQ1LJRvx9KfaA94sCcYalJT6NVdR4vLU/s1600-h/IMG_2843.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGXDbX5sGyQMBPFhoJ63j1Rd7cfaKTA2cWJH3cEqWsn-GTa9RwXpNrpPZ2lCvz1MTGFUaHUrDYZCjQ6Cpa3hQUx0zNMnQq_2J788UKZ9fG9z-jQ1LJRvx9KfaA94sCcYalJT6NVdR4vLU/s400/IMG_2843.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262088035243127874" /></a>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-51310346661100739342008-10-27T23:10:00.000-07:002008-10-27T23:23:41.433-07:00First Day of Work - Full Views<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">I ended up choosing East wall of the first room to begin work. The North wall already had a fabric piece started and there were several works in the second room as well.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">I had done a net search for the term "Bronx" and downloaded about 280 images. I posted 8 1/2 x 11 pieces of paper showing them as a series of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">thumbnails</span>. I had also downloaded <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">hundreds</span> of pages of text researching the Bronx and the West Farms area where the Bronx River Art Center is located.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">I selected nine of those texts and printed them out, and hung them on the wall.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">I also <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">experimented</span> with creating a comic about the neighborhood and about the experience of creating the exhibit. I posted a 13" x 19" example on the wall as well.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">All that may well change as I continue to work.</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiHEwc3LKTttsKY05ZeNORP0ullthFxJTRguozZHz1-8dSJX3wn5LqOBF1EJKJhVIudbTaLSUTl-tWx4FTU2sb7FP2WpqjIoEt-ITdgikLKvrm3Zeds24FK1e3-Lm8TZJU9yJq2vioQJc/s1600-h/IMG_2847.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiHEwc3LKTttsKY05ZeNORP0ullthFxJTRguozZHz1-8dSJX3wn5LqOBF1EJKJhVIudbTaLSUTl-tWx4FTU2sb7FP2WpqjIoEt-ITdgikLKvrm3Zeds24FK1e3-Lm8TZJU9yJq2vioQJc/s400/IMG_2847.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262083858283940338" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioIeoQwvStvvZMEKBCCB55dNX0CMCEbKeFsMoBKxymSfovokdxMvgbXI3fZKBqrl6ESYFPlT3HJIZLcRM5zMlxe2pYkiPeS8LXMeXeejbCyjRkKiw9ewy3bZDjd34EhyphenhyphenPM0mjeTEHgFUo/s1600-h/IMG_2846.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioIeoQwvStvvZMEKBCCB55dNX0CMCEbKeFsMoBKxymSfovokdxMvgbXI3fZKBqrl6ESYFPlT3HJIZLcRM5zMlxe2pYkiPeS8LXMeXeejbCyjRkKiw9ewy3bZDjd34EhyphenhyphenPM0mjeTEHgFUo/s400/IMG_2846.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262083852155666466" /></a>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-59067321180243577682008-10-27T23:08:00.001-07:002008-10-27T23:10:15.719-07:00The Neighborhood<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">View from the subway platform at the BRAC stop.</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqOWKijSemK0ee0vQaN64_b1hub-HZJ7t89aFs7i2rabNOHCtyru_4cqyXR2_W7fkP6UY1W_eoOHplIX-XGVbcQVayZ3nnF0Iw7l2q8E_plFg7kdCVZnh4fkvXYmEIgXOouWox5Qsozi8/s1600-h/IMG_2819.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqOWKijSemK0ee0vQaN64_b1hub-HZJ7t89aFs7i2rabNOHCtyru_4cqyXR2_W7fkP6UY1W_eoOHplIX-XGVbcQVayZ3nnF0Iw7l2q8E_plFg7kdCVZnh4fkvXYmEIgXOouWox5Qsozi8/s400/IMG_2819.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262082908502863170" /></a>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-37035814153360633792008-10-27T23:00:00.000-07:002008-10-27T23:07:15.969-07:00General Meeting at JCAL<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Bob Lee, Jose Ruiz, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Heng</span>-Gil Han lay out the basic Idea for the multi institution Metro Poles Exhibit, for the participating artists, and explain how the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">approaches</span> of each institution will differ.</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmYkoqYXh5Q-wLAOOsJjFBtaTNXAQW2R-HZn__Bc2qx7rnN8sjnBc5o1Qy3xRDSADmiqZEi3HcxSKJKDloG4-u36umkVit5plOdLqSXjLoQdBKu7jkiBuAVvP7OA8QsXCln0vhmdtT6mo/s1600-h/IMG_2797.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmYkoqYXh5Q-wLAOOsJjFBtaTNXAQW2R-HZn__Bc2qx7rnN8sjnBc5o1Qy3xRDSADmiqZEi3HcxSKJKDloG4-u36umkVit5plOdLqSXjLoQdBKu7jkiBuAVvP7OA8QsXCln0vhmdtT6mo/s400/IMG_2797.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262080988155279794" /></a>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686226792429989677.post-28335596486658882882008-10-27T22:25:00.000-07:002008-10-27T23:00:10.983-07:00First Viewing of the Space<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Paul Chang-Jin and Marcy visiting BRAC. Asa had already stopped by.</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir5CTFv3Ieppk2peQr0U91IeyFwHcjcnbez76oRsSeMvSFe6hwwKfzTh0iuQm7QK3fZzWUhwtmKG7mTLjlHVa_uR-JE_0-MLXwiufJIzZ9aQjlh7-OGAeTUUUvhS1Xsndzz50HmN394GM/s1600-h/IMG_2772.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir5CTFv3Ieppk2peQr0U91IeyFwHcjcnbez76oRsSeMvSFe6hwwKfzTh0iuQm7QK3fZzWUhwtmKG7mTLjlHVa_uR-JE_0-MLXwiufJIzZ9aQjlh7-OGAeTUUUvhS1Xsndzz50HmN394GM/s400/IMG_2772.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262080175325853938" /></a>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364834395733357377noreply@blogger.com0