In many ways, my mind, as far as our final assignment for 2D is concerned, is still absorbed by our last assignment, that of propaganda. During the process of that assignment I though about all the different ways that people construct and destruct the biased messages we wish society to adopt. Throughout my developement of that project I had dificulty deciding which side of that line I wanted to be on as well as wondering when those paths crossed, which they clearly do. These thoughts lead me back to themes about the concept of "rule" that stem all the way back to our first collage project in this class.
I scrounged up out of my sister's garage to use for this project, having been one of her husbands trophies of juvenile delinquencies of yore, a wonderful, very large intersecting street sign. Immediately I knew that I wanted my sign to have an alterable quality that invited interaction with passersby. Throughout the processof the propaganda, the defacing of such seemed to me as much a part of propaganda as the message itself and I felt irresistably drawn to provide an opportunity to deface or alter a sign that, in ways similiar to how propaganda tells you where or how you should be, tells you where you are. I think it's interesting that when one defaces propaganda it's usually in protest against it's ideology, but also against rule. The defacing of a sign can protest rule, but alternately achieves the opposite effect on a street sign, acting as though a protest or a suggestion of questioning accepted reality, and perhaps a biased acceptance or perspective of such.
Location: In the tree outside of The Dark Room on the corner of Higgins and Main
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