Core Sample
Steel, glass and poster fragments
4.5" x 96" x 4"
Metalwork by Louis Delegato
Core sample collected on: 7.14.2009
Location: Telephone pole - 39th and Hawthorne, SE Portland, Oregon
Layers: 210
Beyond the debate between city character and city litter, I am intrigued by poster covered surfaces as cultural artifacts. Although each promoted event will entropy, their mass is routinely renewed. What remains is a cyclical residue of the population that rebuilds it.
4.5" x 96" x 4"
Metalwork by Louis Delegato
Core sample collected on: 7.14.2009
Location: Telephone pole - 39th and Hawthorne, SE Portland, Oregon
Layers: 210
Beyond the debate between city character and city litter, I am intrigued by poster covered surfaces as cultural artifacts. Although each promoted event will entropy, their mass is routinely renewed. What remains is a cyclical residue of the population that rebuilds it.
