I went to college and left with a degree titled “Subversive, Responsible, Non-commissioned, Humorous Public Art”. That was a fun couple of years. A lot of time has passed since then, but I still plot to break up the urban monotony with sneaky, site-specific, intellectual gags.

I created a bunch of fake “Land Use Action Permits” eluding to impossible projects. The power in this project is in its audience. There are only a few people whom walk down the street and actually read these boring signs. I think a lot of people ignore them because they figure another condo or parking lot is being built. I’ve proposed bottomless pits, black holes, 1000 ft tall bunnies, upside down skyscrapers and a dozen others and most people just walk right by.

Before story corps, youtube, chat-roulette and twitter, there was a portable faux fur-lined orange box with a video camera and a rack of costumes to anonymously vent and explain your life to the world. People were invited to enter the box and “say anything” to the camera while the footage from the previous day was played outside. Ah, 1999.

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I built these rotating panels that attached to posts. From the vantage point of standing in front of the panel, a photograph of what lies behind it was on one side and the same image but altered (for example: a missing tree) on the other. When you spin the panel, you see a visual illusion of the altered environment behind the panel. It’s hard to explain, but it worked and was kind of fun too.

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I made a bunch of ceramic noses and nailed them to telephone poles around the city. Subject to interpretation.

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In costume, I “cleaned” with soapy water the bricks of pioneer square for 10 hours. Others helped with various cleaning activities (sweeping, mopping, polishing, dusting…) in similar costume. We had audio recordings of the definition of the word clean playing too. The public’s hostile reactions during work hours vs. the welcoming reactions during artwalk evening were extreme. We were going to devote a monthly group performance in a similar vain to different words/concepts, but it never took off. I would love to start this up again.  Contact me?

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