Window Talking

"Carmen is in Paradise" (my Mom, Carmen, had passed away several months before)
The gallery in Brussels was located in a predominately residential neighborhood and located at the corner of a "rond-point" or roundabout, basically a rather busy intersection where many folks would take the tram or bus to go downtown. I'm not quite sure how it got started, I believe my friend and writer Paul Simonetti, suggested one day that we start writing phrases on the window of the gallery that faced and ran parallel with the tram tracks. We quickly realized that we literally had a captive audience, since the tram almost always slowed down when navigating the roundabout. Here are just a few excerpts from a month long - we changed the slogans daily, installation of basic communication.

"Another fuschia that has disappeared" (I had a terrible time keeping plants of any kind planted before they grew legs - it didn't help)



Comments
Nice idea and installation. I like the idea to focus people on daily stuff. It makes them think about life, about the beautiness, sadness and more of important and less important things.
Posted by: Peter | décembre 18, 2006 01:57 AM
Great idea! Such a poetic and fun form of "text art." I think I'm going to suggest it to a handful of galleries I know. I'll make sure they credit you!
Posted by: Mark Staff Brandl | décembre 22, 2006 01:31 PM