A Long Walk

"A Long Walk" - Bailing Wire & Photography - Site-specific Installation

I created this piece by bending and manipulating steel bailing wire to form text. I wrote one long story out of the wire and installed it on the outskirts of the city. The wire height ranges from one to two inches respectively. The length of the story is approximately 200 feet.

I chose this specific location because of the environment. The city had begun construction on a business district and so the road was widened and a sidewalk was installed. I found this sidewalk to be quite surreal as there was no reason for a sidewalk out there.

This piece was later uninstalled by an unknown person(s). Before it was taken down, however, I would frequently come to investigate how the weather was affecting it. I discovered that someone had written notes to me and other people who frequent the sidewalk. It became an informal message board of sorts.

Here is a copy of the original story:

On this particular evening, I sit passenger seat in a crowded four door coupe, which is slowly gliding through the evening blue sky...eyes jumping from treetop to treetop, reflecting off silhouettes the color of smoke. Streetlights turn themselves off - stop sign, sidewalk. Venus shines low in the horizon and I make a wish without asking for a thing. My mind comes back to clarity if only for a second, and in that moment, I feel like an amnesia victim, whom for a brief moment, steps out of the fog - admiring how simple everything has become...and I wish only to share in these precious moments with everyone around...

 

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