Fade Testing, courtesy http://www.tedfelix.com/FadeTesting/InkjetFade3.html
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Fitness Bodybuilder, Forbes, IronmanFitness, Food & Wine
Pages 39–48
This sixth issue of Priv. Circ. went out last weekend. This is the introduction from that email.
——– Original Message ——–
| Subject: | Some Cars of Brooklyn |
|---|---|
| Date: | Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:36:54 -0400 |
| From: | Private Circulation |
Dear reader,
[…]
A: No, I don’t think so. I have confidence moving forward that what I selected is good. I think what interests me the most with this particular map is that it’s a heavy urban area, but it’s also a very residential area. Brooklyn is the store-yard for much of Manhattan. Looking at satellite images from Manhattan you see the cars are very orderly. All of them are being used. The ones not in motion are stacked or parked nicely, orderly. Space there is at such a premium. Space in Brooklyn is also expensive, but not so much. People can afford to have wrecking yards. In Brooklyn there are flows of traffic and there are places where cars go to die, where they have not been used, where their use is to be taken apart for other cars. There are these odd triangulated lots, eddies apart from the stream where these dead cars go to rust. They get piled up and jammed together. I’m interested in these interstitial places. Places where you see a traffic stream and then you see a bunch of cars all jammed together. There is no way that they could move out of there except piece by piece.
Q: So this work isn’t about just demarcating where streets and parking lots are?
A: No, not at all.
Q: How do you know that when you are finished cutting these out your thoughts will be communicated through the end product?
A: I don’t. You never know anything for sure. I do know that the piece will be over 3 feet square, and I can sense that there will be a beauty to it. I can see patterns emerging already. Also, the act of cutting the cars out clears my mind. Besides the resistance of my muscles to repetitive labor, it is very soothing.
Q: Do you think that you’d do the project without an end product?
A: You mean just because?
Q: Yes. Just to give yourself something to do.
A: I don’t think so. But that’s a hard question because you don’t know for sure that there is ever an end.
Sincerely,
—The Editors
Parking at the Pentagon
Parking at the Pentagon, inkjet on paper, 24 x 30 inches, 2008
Excerpt
There are even a couple of landlocked boats. Along the Long Island Railroad past Jamaica there is a boat tipped over with a jagged section of its hull missing. It rests alone in a vast parking lot with grass sticking through the concrete. This boat is not pictured here but for some reason grass growing between pads of concrete reminds me of this.