Behind the Green Wall
The New York City landscape is in constant change. A given block always has the potential to be home to multiple construction sites for new buildings. It feels like our living environment is in constant flux. Around these holes in the ground, we can see olive green wooden walls guarding the process of digging in the earth behind them. Somewhere throughout the stretch of a wall are diamond-shaped windows, to give the curious minds an opportunity to peek in and discover what is cooking behind these guarding walls. What awakens my curiosity is how this constant ground of change created a new space for people to post their lives on these walls. This cultural activity comes in all different shapes and forms; movie advertisements, posters of shows, job postings, all sorts of printed matter, lost and found, etc. All these cultural visuals eventually touched by the elements and create layers of footprints on the green new wall that adopted them, not necessarily willingly, but now it feels an organic part of the living environment.
My series of paintings of 24 works 18” x 20” as well as larger paintings on burlap from 2016 documented in an abstract way these footprints of change. Somewhat scratched, not perfectly happy, repeatedly scrapped, yet leaves the traces of history behind.
