garage interventions

These are two separate interventions for my parking garage site. The Temple Street parking garage is at the heart of a major urban renewal project in downtown New Haven, which has included razing a mall and moving Gateway Community College next door to the parking lot. Providing enough parking spaces for the Gateway students in the Temple Street parking lot is part of a larger puzzle to create enough parking infrastructure to accomodate all the incoming traffic to New Haven. New Haven was also the site of a major urban renewal effort in the 1960s which displaced many local residents and which actually hastened the city's decline. Whew. 

That said, above are small postcard-size panels depicting historical scenes of downtown New Haven. The text on the panels, says "The more things change, the more they stay the same"—referring to how this second urban renewal project may be similar/different from the initial attempt.

The shapes on the bottom are neon-colored paper cut-outs of oil blobs that drip from cars. I was trying to draw attention to a kind of "green message" without being too didactic.