The East Village, side street. August 09


With little else to do, the door beckoned to the passerby: "I will be your canvas, I will tell your story...sit no longer in silence, I will be your voice!" And so it was that the door became alive; rhythmically inhaling the subversion of one and exhaling the singular expression of the collective unknown.

Sidewalk stencil graffiti scattered across the city, pictured here in the East Village. August 09


"Method of Defiance." Truth in advertising for the Brooklyn-based drum & bass group.

SoHo. Lafayette & Prince. April 09


She is the projected, objectified non-real. "Shit is coming," the Ad Angel prophesies, eroding under the city's rising tide of chaos. Whatever WAS now IS something completely different, transformed by the art of time and pressure.

Empty spaces inevitably get filled with ads and art that get torn and worn, then the spaces take on a life of their own.

This space is particularly chaotic, which makes the "AVOID AVOID AVOID" warning at the bottom left all the more pertinent. But what I really love about this scene is the proximity of the McDonald's beverage to the AVOID poster. Accidental politics!