bike shrines... Ive been fascinated with old/abandoned/broken bikes for awhile an i think they make an interesting metaphor for loss. so i was thinking, what if i personified the bikes and used them as stand-ins for lost souls. I'm not sure how to fully realized this but i was thinking of maybe adding something to the bikes, like flowers or candles or knitting something around them or some combination to turn them into a bike shrine. but i guess i have to think about who they would represent...if they would represent a specific person or type of person. or type of death...what did the "bike" die from? ...cancer, murder, accident...?
vacant building murals...there are a lot of buildings in my neighborhood (and everywhere in philly) that are vacant or abandoned. Every time i go past one of these places with the boarded over windows, i want to make some kind of image or mural in these places. like maybe paint a scene of "inside" like people living in the space. or maybe just some kind of design. im still unsure of details. but the idea would be site specific, and with the idea of making something beautiful from something old and ugly.
dead birds... this idea has a couple ways to approach. first idea i had was to use the same dead bird drawing i'm using in my mom memorial and place it around the city. maybe on the ground cause thats where you'd fins a dead bird. the second idea is similar in that it would be the dead bird around the city but it would take into consideration the ephemeral quality of paper and the process of transfers. so i'd adhere the dead birds to a flat, smooth surface with an acrylic medium of some sort as if doing a transfer but leave the paper on and allow it to get wet, peal away over time, revealing the bird image. perhaps their would be a live bird image on the other side that people see first, then the dead bird image would be revealed... thus a statement about mortality. maybe i could branch out from birds to do other types of images that start as one thing and reveal another. id have to do a test to see how this idea would actually pan out. it might take a few weeks to see results though. hence starting with the bird first.
community shrines... I mentioned when we were talking to Paul that maybe I could start a shrine that other people are invited to add to. A collective of grief. But I'd have to find the right location for it and figure out a way to give a people an idea what its for and that they can add to it. again, a site specific installation kinda thing.
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