For this project, drawings of sale signs are installed in stacks and dense clusters. Rendered in charcoal, pastel and gouache, these signs announce an amazing, momentous, but also catastrophic, clearance event. These are the precious versions of their printed and handwritten counterparts overwhelming the current commercial landscape. As unique hand-drawn pieces, they signal the more personal repercussions of the economic collapse on the employees who make or hang these ever-perky ever-optimistic signs. However when installed in the storefront space for a closed store, the signs are neutered of their function, existing then somewhere between actual signs and mere drawings. This contrast is evident as well in the precarious stacks of worn-down moving boxes painted with sign imagery in effervescent fluourescent orange. These are related to the installation: holymoley land and to: thing series of charcoal drawings.
materials: gouaches, pastel, charcoal on paper and cardboard / varying dimensions up to 6 x 16 feet / installed: Incident Report, Hudson, NY; Loyola College, Baltimore, MD