Like Her Rookie - Empire Stores Dumbo, aes.56

She was 38,
yet it felt like
her rookie season.

aes.56
December 22, 2013, 12:30pm
Empire Stores on Water St., Dumbo

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Old Man Confessed - Cadman Plaza Park, aes.61

"I conduct my whole day,"
the old man confessed,
"around capturing some
time like this with you."

aes.61
December 1, 2013, 4:45pm
Cadman Plaza Park, western walkway fence

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Warm on Her - Front St., aes.62

The sun felt warm
on her back as she
walked up Front Street.

aes.62
Dumbo, Brooklyn, corner of Front St. and Adams St., empty flowerbox outside Forager's
November 5, 2013, 10:38pm

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Birds + Early - Front St., Dumbo, aes.64

Night birds
+ early owls.

aes.64

Front St., Dumbo, Brooklyn, Outside Forager's on Main St. (cr. aes.43)

November 5, 2013, 10:35pm
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The Past Everything - Main St., Dumbo, aes.60

In the past
everything is
possible.

aes.60
On standpipe, outside PowerhouseArena, Dumbo, Brooklyn (cr. aes.26)
November 5, 2013, 10:30pm (after event with Anthony Bourdain and Roi Choi #LASon. So inspired after this event, I published three tags tonight.)

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A Thousand Pieces - Front St., Dumbo, aes.59

Each one
a thousand pieces
of you.

aes.59
Outside Berl's Poetry Shop, Dumbo, Brooklyn
November 3, 2013, 9:25pm

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Doubling His Pet - Dumbo, aes.52

He snipped the
earthworm in two,
doubling his pet
collection.

aes.52
Dumbo, corner of Water and Jay St.
July 13, 2013, 4:40pm

It wasn't planned that there would be another invertebrate reference after the last one about the snail! Accidental editing.

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In the Garden - Brooklyn Heights Promenade, aes.54

I'm a snail
in the garden.

aes.54
Brooklyn Heights Promenade, around the midpoint
April 27, 2013, 3:20pm

The tulips are out, the trees are in blossom, and it's a beautiful day for a walk in the sunshine. I wrote this tag many months ago, and today is finally its day. 

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Yoko Ono's Wish Tree at the Brooklyn Museum

My cousin spotted this today at the Brooklyn Museum and sent me a picture.

Inspired by my project? Or zeitgeist? Or kismet?

No, it's Yoko Ono's Wish Tree, an audience-and-artist collaborative project that she has mounted in locations around the world since the 1990s.

I imagine it is more inspired by wishing trees in Japan, like these in Kyoto depicted in Lost in Translation.

Yet there is a resonance -- dated phrases hand-written on tags, strung up on something outside.

Tying on wishes, hanging prayers.

Speaking to the wind.

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Update on Words and Threading, aes.50 - Relocation from Brooklyn to Belfast (ME)

Showed Omma the tag during a stroll around Dumbo one Sunday.

A few days later, I let my friend Erica, who was visiting from Maine, steal the tag. She makes work involving thread and fiber, so it seemed fitting that she'd steal this particular one. 

 Erica sent me this photo of the tag tied up in her studio. I like imagining it fluttering in front of the window there.

Erica also wrote a haiku inspired by the tag. It's in the comments of the original post:

http://aes-tags.blogspot.com/2012/09/words-and-threading-water-st-dumbo-aes50.html#comment-form 

I love knowing the story of this tag. Usually they disappear and I don't know where they end up.

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Words and Threading - Water St. Dumbo, aes.50

Picking up the

prettiest words and

threading them all

together.

aes.50
Empire Stores building on Water St. in Dumbo, Brooklyn
September 22, 2012, 10:20am

I love this block-long stretch which has evolved into a veritable street art gallery. The hulkingly huge building, now closed up, was a warehouse built in the 19th century.

The sentence on the tag appeared fully-formed in my head after a nap one day.

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Treated to Molecular - Bridge St., aes.51

Tomorrow night she
would be treated
to molecular gastronomy.

aes. 51
Water St. near Bridge St., Dumbo, Brooklyn
September 20, 2012, 11:50pm

This tag was written the day before I was treated to a wonderful dinner at WD-50 by P & K. Fascinatingly yum. 


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What It Was - Manhattan Bridge Archway, aes.55

"When they asked me 
what it was for, 
I said it was 
for them."

aes.55
Manhattan Bridge Archway, Dumbo, Brooklyn
September 16, 2012, 8:00pm

This tag quotes from Jane Kaufmann's new book. It's in reference to the "city in sand" she built with participation from other artists and passers-by on Hampton Beach in the '70s. The spirit of that public project resonates with me. I feel the same way about my tags.

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When People Die - York St. Station, aes. 41

I hate it

when people

die.

aes.41

York St. F Train station

July 4, 2012, 1:35am

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Was Pouring There - Superfine, aes.30

Outside the rain
was pouring.
There would be
puddles tomorrow.

aes. 30
Dumbo, outside Superfine on Front St.
June 7, 2012, 11:00pm 


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Their Ideas Were - Water St. Dumbo, aes.47

Was there any other

way to tell 'em

their ideas were

crap?

aes.47

Dumbo, Water Street between Main and Dock

April 21, 2012, 4:00pm

This is one of those out-of-the-blue phrases that are more about a mood or character (Mad Men?) than a specific target. It is not, for example, a commentary on the surrounding street tags, which I love.

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She Just Loved - Brooklyn Bridge Park Rosebush, aes.45

Or maybe,

like me,

she just

loved flowers.

aes.45

Brooklyn Bridge Park, rosebush 

April 21, 2012, 3:30pm

A nod to my great aunt and great grandmother today.

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Way He Wrote - Henry St., aes.46

The tortured curves

of the "S"s

in the way he

wrote her name.

 

aes.46

April 20, 2012, 9:05pm

Chair outside Hibino on Henry and Pacific, Brooklyn

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What Does Writing - Main St., aes. 26

"What
does
writing
fix?"

aes.26

April 13, 2012, 12:55am

Standpipe outside Powerhouse Books, Main St., Dumbo.

Been carrying this one around a while. It's a phrase that has obsessed me since my first (and only) creative writing class (at NYU) taught by the wonderful writer Chuck Wachtel. Great class. Maybe never quite got over it...

Chose location yesterday afternoon, but too many folks around. Pics taken by my cousin, whose hand is in the first shot. Thanks, cuz!!

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Me So Hard - Washington St., aes.39

"Why does your

company make me

so hard?!" he

angrily misspoke.

 

aes.39

March 12, 2012, 7:02pm

Outside of Rice on Washington St. between York and Front. 

The phrase is one yelled into the phone by my uncle-in-law, a non-native speaker of English, who was having trouble with a vendor for his business. It was hilarious.

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