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| I found stinky piss-smelling Cortland Alley the other
day, following some clues from Swoon where I might find some of her new
street art pieces. It was like an old Twilight Zone episode where some
portal to another dimension opened up. I've prowled around Canal Street
for a quarter century looking for exotic art materials and tools and I
never even noticed this alley before. It has what must be the largest
collection of Swoon prints pasted on it's walls. Cortland Alley is between
Lafayette Street and Broadway and is South of Canal Street. 11/27/03 |
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| That red tongue is some jealous tagger's sticker. |
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| "You know why I made this one actually, it was right
about the time there was a man who was ticketed for illegal use of milk
crate, for sitting on a milk crate on the street. I was that is so fucking
ridiculous. You should be able to use the streets as public spaces. I
feel like it’s the thing of not encouraging community on the streets.
I was just kind of tweaking a little. Oh ‘illegal use of milk crate’
huh! I’ll make some guys sitting the streets on milk crates! This
is just a photograph of a guy on Seventh Avenue. He was sitting on a milk
crate. I thought it was kind of appropriate for the time."
From my interview with Swoon. |
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