Making Mock-Ups Before Postering St. Louis
November 4th, 2010
A mock-up for the Urban Wave postering project depicts how the stylus hand image might look in a proposed location. Urban Wave members submitted mock-ups, such as this one, to stylus curator Matthias Waschek and artist Ann Hamilton for curatorial approval.
It’s almost go-time.
Tuesday night, I submitted the first fifteen mock-ups for the Urban Wave postering project: photographs of specific locations in and around Old North City, with images of Hamilton’s posters superimposed in the position of their proposed installation.
How did we get here? Last week, I visited the neighborhood (roughly the boundaries established by the Old North Restoration Group and a little north into Hyde Park) several times to make photographs and measurements. Regina Martinez, Emily Task and I did the initial exploration together, gloriously on foot in what felt like the first real days of fall. On return visits, I was generously assisted by Nathaniel Zorach, a partner in the continuation of Theaster Gate’s Urban Expression, a program which began as a Pulitzer initiative. Read the rest of this entry »
