Streetlight for a Poet
Streetlight, security mirror, parking-lot line paint
40’’ x 60’’
2021
Using a security mirror, parking-lot line paint, and a streetlamp, this work reconfigures materials historically used to organize and surveille public space, into an installation that provides a moment of play, interaction, and pause. Encountering the work from the ground, the viewer is at first drawn to the yellow lines on the pavement. Following those lines to the center they find themselves beneath a mirror mounted on a streetlight. Their personal action of looking up completes the image, the viewer suddenly held at center.