location:
Bowling Green up to 110th Street
date:
1997
material:
fluorescent red gaffertape (2 inch),
brown paper bag
dimensions:
paperbag: 40 x 69 x 30 cm
distance: about 8 miles
photographer:
Karin Desmarowitz

Covering every tenth block's trash with fluorescent tape. Fluorscent red objects appear. The brown paper bags guide my action.

Broadway is one of the last geographical marks of the original inhabitants, the Indians. It does not fit into the mostly geometrically planned street system of Manhattan. The Indians were the first "homeless" at Manhattan island.

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