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Walking Men 99

8 May 2010

NYC,

Spotted by Julia Smola

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Among the many instances of the Downtown Alliance using art to spruce up construction sites is artist Maya Barkai's "Walking Men 99". Barkai gathered 99 examples of silhouettes from “walk” signs from around the world and lined them up in one big row. The installation covers the wall surrounding a construction site in downtown manhattan, recreating each cross walk symbol in human scale. Included in the piece are icons from Tel Aviv, Vancouver, Florence, Moscow, Kyoto, Barcelona, Santiago, Beirut, Utrecht, New York and many others. The installation will stay on display till mid january 2011. I'm sure Maya has something else coming as inspiring as her current creation, and I'm trilled to see.

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