22nd Avenue

Date: 2022

Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Project Type: Public art installation with architectural video projection

Site: The wall of a local business adjacent to a vacant lot in downtown

Grant: Verdant Fund Project Grant (Andy Warhol Foundation)

Description: This community-based video installation was created as part of the collaboration “Tracing Thin Air.” There are more details about the event on the “Tracing Thin Air” portfolio page.

“22nd Avenue” began with drawing parties at the site. Community members gathered in a usually vacant lot to make graphite drawings of the old brick building. The drawing party is about presence and dialogue. Each person made marks on paper and by sharing empty space. The 100+ drawings made on site and in a workshop are layered in a video so that at least three drawings are seen, but the combination is always changing. The video wraps the wall so that the efforts to draw the facade wrap the actual structure. The individual marks rarely line up. Instead it creates a new sense of our presence in this place. The ephemeral video installation is reflected in drawings, photographs, and videos.