Title: You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
Location: Jackson Ave and 45th
Ave.
This accidental artwork is comprised mostly
of geometric shapes that go from the bottom to the top. Each of the rectangular
bands have a different color and texture, starting at the top a viewer sees a
bright blue rectangular that suggests a soft texture because of the sky clouds.
Below that it shifts to harder textures, which are real textures not implied because if you touched them you would actually feel it: the rough grey cinderblock, followed
by the ribbed green metal, then a red and white striped part, then the gray on the
bottom. There are also Patterns in this artwork- the squares in the bottom, the repeating shape in the concrete wall. The pattern that is most clear
is the red/white striped diagonal lines, and the vertical lines that are on the
green area. There is also a large bold black horizontal line dividing the image
in half, suggesting a band of calmness in all the other busy textures. Each
part of this image is overlapping the other so it feels like it is going back
in space. Also the top portion would be considered negative space, because it
feels like there is air there. I think the contect and meaning of this artwork
is al about the rapidly changing city, with one layer being built on top of
another layer, but also showing some parts of it because no one can really
erase a memory or history even if they try. It’s also about gentrification, and
the loss of natural space in an urban environment.
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