peppering

I heart New York. I wish I were there right now, or at dusk, to see Jenny Holzer's projections on a bunch of landmarks like the New York Library, the Rockefeller Center and others. In the '80s, she wrote "truisms" on big posters and plastered them in wheatpaste around the city. They were catchy, humorous, and pointed, like "the future is stupid" "private property created crime" and "men don't protect you anymore."

This week she's doing something cleaner than poster glue (projected light) yet far more dirty (using declassified government documents).

Besides Uncle Sam's files, she also is projecting verse from some 20 poets, throwing them up on pale buildings for the world to see, discuss, and be moved. She says,

"I show what I can with words in light and motion in a chosen place, and when I envelop the time needed, the space around, the noise, smells, the people looking at one another and everything before them, I have given what I know." - Jenny Holzer