at the post alley sculpture garden
4.5.03 - 5.26.03
click to see the artist reception flyer (5.8.03)
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to the many who've given time, resources and encouragement to make Series Three: Saturate happen: Friends of Post Alley, Gary at the City Light Pole Yard, The Shunpike Arts Collective, Seeing Eye Dog Web Design (John Cooper), Frank Chiachiere, Sage Geyer and the Alibi Room, Jeromy Nail, Rama, Rebecca West, Israel, Alex Simmons and Barry Penland. And to the brutal curiosity and support of cohorts in Seattle, especially: Billy King, Leah Baltus, Jason Smith, Ramiro Guitérrez/Uniting Souls, Sarah Kavage, Brian Houghland, Mark Atherton, Liz Knaster, Eric Schinfeld, Michael Leavitt, Tim Stackpole, Michael Sendrow, Azur Koteen, Cintra Pollack and my sister, Mara Buchbinder.
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This series of four poles sets up different ways for the public to relate and react to the poles as free, public loci for communication. Two of the poles explore this through figureheads of popular culture—Superman and Dorothy—that receive instant and constant recognition by the many. The other two poles, Princess Leia and a massive syringe, were created on-site during April and May. The intention of Series Three was to explore the methods and contents of aesthetic judgments placed on a politically-charged set of objects (posters and poles) whose ubiquity, transience and public-ness are not considered beautiful and/or worth the attribution of meaning. Series Three has paved the way for Series Four, the creation of 6-8 images on poles in neighborhoods across the city.
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