Boston Streetworks 1992

On the morning of Sunday May 23, 1992 ten Streetworks were installed in and around Boston, Massachusetts. Sites included timber pylons in Reserve Channel, Boston Harbor; boarded up buildings in Roxbury; a large granite boulder along the sea wall near the J.F. Kennedy Library, Old Harbor; on concrete bridge pylons beneath the O'Brien Highway, Sommerville, on walls in Cambridge near Harvard's J.F. Kennedy School of Government, and on a park wall in South End. One piece, War Trophies, made from metal pieces of road kill mounted on exquisite white handmade paper was placed on a tree in a wooded area in Bedford, not far from a sign that read, Raytheon Missile Systems Division Headquarters. The invitation to the Boston Streetworks exhibition, titled Friends Made along the Way, included the following statement:

Over the past couple of years I have become more intrigued by discarded things. Whether this interest is prompted by artistic, ecological or political reason is of no real consequence because inevitably all these concerns are interdependent. But the idea of retrieving objects, materials and remnants and giving them another chance at a new existence has a nice feel to it. And that renewal is more often than not sparked both by the history of the use the material brings with it, and also the particular issue that it happens to collide with in my mind. So political, social and sensuous issues can emerge, connect and co-exist with more obscure personal passions. And, as with things you feel strongly attached to, great care is taken to allow these ideas and materials to meet and speak for themselves-so they have to be let go.

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