Dykeman Excavation too

August 29, 2009. More. The tearing away was more complete on this panel at Dykeman Street. The posters were torn away to the black glue, cement and flat white surface underneath. The blue was vivid and part of an ad that was built up from the base. Like an ancient passerby, someone left their mark on the upper left corner – just to let us know he had been there. I wish I had investigated these closer, and recorded in my mind the minutest details, because these are sure to vanish.

Dykeman Excavation

August 29, 2009. Take the A train to Dykeman Street, said Philip. You’ll see these marvelous billboards. I did. Paper ads are torn away, excavated, to reveal what is beneath, but not in neat layers. Rather in subsequent layers, overlays, color upon color, words shapes forms, bits and pieces. A view from above if I was in space – 10 snapshots in time – but none of them wholly in charge of the final work. I especially like the bits of green outlining the borders of the white space. The peace sign seems appropriate to the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.