In the Garden - Brooklyn Heights Promenade, aes.54

I'm a snail
in the garden.

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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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Afraid of Amounting - 9th St. East Village, aes.53

Are you afraid

of amounting

to something?

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9th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, outside the sake bar Decibel
April 2, 2013, 8:30pm

After a long cold winter, the Brooklyn Tagger is BACK, baby! 

First one of the year "published" outside an old favorite spot in the East Village. Wrote the tag last year, been carrying it around for months.

While the phrases on the tags are usually what I consider fictional, this one does actually relate to the recent personal. 

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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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You Are Already Free - East Village, NYC

Spotted this phrase sharpied on a storefront gate in the East Village last night, on my birthday. (Would actually make a good tag...)

"You Are Already Free"

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.

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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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