Set of two posters depict playful apartment living culture and feature the residents and funny fictional descriptions about them. The posters are organized by floor and alphabetically by the resident.
22x29.5
Matte Inkjet Print
2017, Portland, Maine
22x29.5
Matte Inkjet Print
2017, Portland, Maine
I was inspired by all the variety of people living in my building and interacting with each other everyday. Sometimes we don’t even interact with each other but we observe each other. I observe each of them as I come across them in the hallway or elevator, and I build a certain perception of them even if I don’t interact. This was very interesting. It is not positive or negative, it is purely subjective and the fact that every fifty of them have that subjective view of the other forty nine makes it a very intriguing subject to think about.
The posters featured the apartments of these people that I took the photos of without their consent or even knowledge and I also stole the apartment list and their names without their consent or knowledge. I wrote descriptions about all of them on what I deduced or thought about them, and I lied too. Facts, fictions, and opinions were all mixed together along with their names—so the individuality was there but very distorted. Just like in real life.
I wanted to communicate that there is no universal equality or meaning on our collective existence and perception as people, and that is not necessarily a negative thing but instead authentic to our being. The old grandfathers smoking on the front door were “smelly gaffers gang” to me, but they were “brothers” to each other.
