Project 2- One Corner, One Light

Falling Down
Where it ended up.

The first thing I have to say about this project is how long it took. I have never spent that much time on a project in my entire life. Between cutting up each individual square in Photoshop (which I later found out from someone that there was a program that could have done that for me), laying it all out, taping each column together, and then hanging, I spent 40+ hours. With that being said, the vague assignment of "One corner, One light" really gave me a lot to think about and this is what I came up with.

My whole idea was to bring my street corner at home and put it in the installation room. The enlarged image is in fact the view from where I would stand in front of my house looking out to JFK Blvd. I also thought it would be funny to put a corner on a corner and really mess with perspective and the depth of the space. But mainly I just wanted to re contextualize my corner. The light source is the police light hanging from above. The way it was viewed was with all of the lights off, and that being the only light so your eyes had to get used to the light and little by little you would start to make out an image on the wall and the garbage on the floor. The garbage on the floor really was to make the 2D image turn into a 3D installation, and feel more realistic. The police light simply represents the many sirens that drive down the Blvd. at night, sometimes just to kick us off the corner. I really had a good time with this project, I just wish I could have kept it up sooner. It was a real bummer to have to rip it down so quick.