“Waiting Pictures/Shelter for Now”, Artspace TMU, 2025
(Black and white photographic paper, extruded aluminum, acrylic, LED, UV print, adhesive vinyl)
Anachronistic methodology, holding photographic paper directly against the illuminated advertising panels incorporated in transit shelters. It establishes a physical engagement with the subject, meeting the image at its surface. To scale. Perspective causes distortion. In fact the posters hung loosely behind their protective glazing so my facsimiles lack resolution.
I worked after dark, using my bike to trace a bus route near my house. A campaign for a television series about a zombie apocalypse featured in just about every other shelter. I started theorizing waiting. Societal longing for the apocalyptic fantasy; waiting as default in a present without imaginable futures. “Every path has a price”.
Shelter for Now is an abstract model of a transit shelter, scaled down here, inviting viewers to imagine an encounter.