MONUMENTS PROJECT

Monuments is a poster campaign with sites in NYC, Seattle, Singapore, Prague, Amsterdam, and Berlin. No credit, no permission, no gallery. Alongside the street pieces, the record here includes works on paper: collage studies for poster campaigns, media interventions, and collaborations that never made it past the design stage, or that fed into ones that did. These are the planning documents of an anonymous street operation, the closest thing the project has to a sketchbook

Origin story. Seattle, 1993. Fresh off a painting ISP in Florence, Italy. Broke, depressed, and disoriented by the gap between what I'd just seen in Italy and daily life back home. That year's news was Sarajevo, Somalia, Waco but everyone wanted to talk about the X-Files and Wu-Tang instead. I photocopied a newspaper photo of the Washington Monument until it degraded into a generic obelisk, ancient and placeless, then put it on posters and t-shirts distributed by a small group of collaborators.

We glued and taped it to buses, parking meters, and phone booths from Seattle to Singapore, Prague, Amsterdam, and Berlin. No credit, no permission, no gallery. Obelisks are monuments built to travel, looted and re-erected as claims of reach. Mine moved by network instead of empire, hand to hand, asserting presence in public space that was never granted. This record includes the street work alongside the collage studies and proposals that shaped it.

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