Sunday
wtf?
The annotated city project is an attempt to explore what happens when narratives are disclosed, not in a displaced, technological realm (e.g. flickr, facebook, or layar), but in the shared physical space. In this project I disclose my personal experience of my neighborhood – past and present, whimsical and humiliating – where all my neighbors can see it. Annotations are written in front of their subjects (where possible), in broad daylight, often under the curious (and sometimes offended) gaze of others. I must not only confront the subjects and my story, but contend with passers-by and the immediacy of their judgment. This blog catalogues the annotations and documents their location in a spatial autobiography removed from its space, an ephemeral narrative captured for posterity, a written record of the things I do not say.
In the end, all these scribblings will be washed away by the rain, leaving a fresh canvas behind: a palimpsest.