Kelly Sheehy
BLINK
What happens when you take the street out of art? When instead of letting it blow in overnight on wheat paste winds and yellow spray paint, you commission it? Commodify create spectacle art but with immersion packing 1.5 million folks from the suburbs over the course of a four-day weekend to see it all light up in technicolor and sound in juxtaposition of Black against white. Who gets pushed from the pavement on kickoff parade routes? Lined ten people deep glowsticks and White Claws dance, dance dance for the pleasure, dance for the potential of a neighborhood where they still lock their car doors to drive thru north of Liberty Street or idling on red at night. BLINK and you'll miss Levon at the corner of 14th and Race selling the latest issue of Streetvibes and offering to walk your dog on the 32nd and 33rd of every month. BLINK and you'll miss John in his navy-blue puffer who doesn't stand still and hides his stories behind bright eyes and yellowed whiskers.
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Ginger
