Chrystie st. btw. Broome and Grand. N.Y.C. 1994. Silkscreen poster on boarded window. |
By the early nineties the lower east side was
hitting bottom. Drugs, HIV, crime, gentrification
forcing people out of their homes, it was dismal.
A dark time in my own life as well. This was one
of my most demanding public pieces. Over the summer
I wheat pasted about 75 of these silkscreens
throughout Manhattan's lower east side. It was
a complicated piece strategically, involving
military precision, midnight missions, and the
generous help of many friends.
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