Liberty Plaza, 2015
Pop-X was a 10-day public art exhibition in Ann Arbor’s Liberty Plaza, put on by the Ann Arbor Art Center and supported by the city. The stated goal was to activate the space and enable community members to collaborate and engage with art in the space, however, the real goal seemed to be displacing the park’s normal patrons, many of whom were unhoused persons.
I staged a custom location studio and spent time talking with the regular occupants and taking their portraits. Their images were printed larger-than-life and displayed in a custom 10’ x 10’ shed-like structure, which each showing artist had.
At the center of my shed was the Statue of Liberty Plaza, which I created by melting green army toy soldiers around a structure of plumbing pipe.
