Las Calles Públicas
In this 2015-2019 series of works, I used a drift-style process in Puebla, Mx., Mexico City, New York, and Los Angeles to contrast my identity as an American tourist and American citizen with people from different cultures who [actively or passively ] resist controls on streets and public spaces that emanate from American-style policies whose results privilege tourists, homeowners, and business owners over other street users.
Self-documentation initiated an interrogation of privilege and Americanness through denial and/or return of gaze and intentional ambiguity in mapping processes that reference challenges to spatial authority.
The artwork included drawings, metal map paintings showing my movements, photographs and videos of street actions and street actors, and T-shirts with political messages distributed for use in the streets and performances.
