install at Bleeker St., NYC, MTA Subway Station
site-specific intervention, photographic documentation
archival digital prints
variable
2009-ongoing
The “Get Lost!” project restores NYC’s Metropolitan Transit
Authority’s subway maps, signs and place names, to what they
may have geographically looked and sounded like when Henry
Hudson first sailed by it’s shores in 1609. Documented through
photography, the restorations based on 18th century cartography
and toponymy erase 400 years of accumulated history, place
names, neighborhoods, and subway lines, returning Mannahatta to
it’s original green spaces, streams, ponds, and shores the Lenni
Lenape Indians once inhabited.
Returned and inserted back into the subway system in guerrilla
fashion, these restorations provide viewers a brief window into
another time inviting them to get lost in time and space and
re-discover the greatest city in the world.