Boston Sign Project, (in relation to the Prudential Center, Boston) - city wide installation, 2007

Signs: Screen prints on steel, 14" x 14" + zine/guide

To a certain extent signage and information has permeated the contemporary urban landscape to the point where it has in some way taken the place of tangible experience. In these portrayals of the city, I have reduced the urban landscape to a series of lines and shapes, similar to the pictogram aesthetic that one may find on a sign. My choice to implement these forms was to aid in a semiotic approach to urban design by filtering out the noise of text and details found in the actual landscape and reducing it to a series of shapes that the viewer can still recognize as a real place. By re-placing them within the original site from which the landscape image was captured, your relationship to the place it occupies is questioned. It is through the juxtaposition of the real and signed space that I hope to create a context for these images that questions the dichotomy between three-dimensional and two-dimensional space.

Huntington Ave., between Belvidere St. and Mass. Ave.

Exeter St. at Huntington Ave.

Boylston St. at St. Cecilia St.

Gloucester St. between Beacon St. and Marlborough St.