The Line Marker Practice

And when you’ve lost your power as a weapon, there is nothing left to do but turn into a symbol. And as a new symbol you often have to shed past used parts – maybe your shaft, your point…

Line marker works develop specific meanings associated with place from the colloquial to the global.  Further, place has been attached to both fact (the civic regulations we live with) and fiction (the storytelling that enriches our lives).  The...

nein The psychology of a tier. Hitler met with Willy Hof and then with Fritz Todt, and the Autobahn changed from a capitalist bourgeois waste of money to a National Socialist machine,'Volksgemeinschaft' was the word. Existing precursors, including...

eh A man walks into a restaurant he has never been to before. A second man walks up to him that he has never seen before. The second man leads the first down a corridor he has never walked through before. A chair is offered that he has never sat in...

nay It is understood that a man who reads silently, mingles well in a crowd. There is an ever-present impetus held by a maker, to vehemently state what one’s work is not about. To make things clear. Nod to nod to other notions, not to smile at...

mar SAME BRUSH IN THE SAME HAND OF THE SAME MAN WITH THE SAME CAN. Line markers are terra tatoos. Surfaced with the certainty of a civic gavel. Ribboned by warrant, global margins in, out, to and from a city… Gaia’s constant enfaced endemic...

When in the 1960’s, the term ‘topophilia’ was coined (’62 by Yi Fu-Tuan), the U.S.A. Highway Act was only 5 years old and its 41,000- mile interstate plan was just beginning. An enigmatic term, topophilia…

And Edward’s back hurt. Too much the night before in Dutchtown. The new floors at Arbeiter Hall seemed fine and the program was not that taxing, but the rumbling of the seat is the enemy today…

A man stands in the absence of a horizon, landscape details, or other clues about the spatial environment. Solely his body achieves a sense of space. His nose, dropped towards his feet, creates the mental image of the control space they occupy. The breeze bellows…

Look Left. Look Left. If I asked you to try and create in your head the sound of the highest pitch possible and if you thought about the sound and my asking of this, you would look to the left. Your eyes would look left. And if this sound that you...

In many ways, frottage seems a passe activity. Actions of the hand and its interest in rubbing and touching to produce an impression with qualities particular to, connote a feeling of memory, an ersatz or somehow the inadequacies of translating a...

From the Files of the Board of Wayne County Road Commissioners, Detroit, Michigan Center Line on Pavements This line was first used by the Wayne County Road Commission in 1911. Mr. Hines conceived of the idea on Huron River Drive while on an...

1. Line markers are cultural compass cards, worldly in scope.
2. Line markers are graffiti’s distant cousin, a tag in time, if not actually in creative step.
3. Line markers are compliance…