Paper Champion (revisited)

This project was part of a gallery installation at 3Legged Dog's temporary space at 45 John St. in lower Manhattan. I was enraged with the way the Paper Champion project suffered in Times Square and wanted a chance to engage a dialogue with the audience over what had happened. The installation included a video of the original paper champion project being installed. Audio recordings of interviews with pedestrians after the initial project was so calously removed flanked by three of the original images. I also recreated my studio environment in order to give the viewer an understanding of the time and effort involved in the project. Lastly the floors were covered with the 84 advertisements which had been removed during the original posting. Along with the gallery install I took over the phone kiosk outside of the gallery and for one week ran the same images I had uptown. The second week I replaced those images with a representation of my feelings surrounding the entire event.