Visual Resistance

The plywood walls covering the abandoned gas station on Lafayette & Bond in Manhattan have been removed, allowing passersby an open view of a previously hidden graf gallery:

I’m especially glad to have the wall down because for at least 3 or 4 years it was plastered with Cuervo Gold ads which were slowly bleaching in the sun, creating what I always thought was the city’s most noxious adspace.

Side note: a few weeks ago, someone installed a huge, Andreas Gursky-ish landscape photo:

It’s hard to make out in the picture, but the landscape is composed of hundreds of 8.5×11 color printouts, laid out in a grid and wheatpasted onto thin plywood boards. The boards themselves were then screwed onto the existing plywood wall.

Funny that once something nice finally goes up, the wall is destroyed….

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