Lamp Post Posted (2008)
The use of lamp posts as a site for advertising can be seen specifically as a publicly accessible venue for communication, and generally as a record of activity in a city. Often when you see a poster on a lamp post you are simultaneously experiencing the remains of other posters, which announce everything from lost pets to community events. My interest in this phenomenon is less the specific content of each poster but the idea that together these remnants signify human activity in a given location. This project consisted of photographically documenting the entire surface of a lamp post in a neighborhood in Buffalo where pestering is common. The images were printed on a 1:1 scale subsequently attached to another lamp post in downtown Buffalo, where the act of pestering is all but non existent. The project highlights the layered of posters as a single aesthetic composition and as a form of public art.
