Recently I came across this project by artist Bettina Johae that is very pertinent to Abecedarium: NYC.

“Bettina Johae’s site-specific project Borough Edges, NYC remaps the five New York City boroughs based on waterfront accessibility inferred from excursions around the perimeter of each. The large map that results, transferred here directly on the wall, is an abstracted rendition of New York as we know it. Johae also plays a slide show of images systematically shot along the way, revealing New York City defined outside of its famous landmarks. This is the New York of gated communities, ship cemeteries, hazardous waste dumps, beach-front property and sleepy neighborhoods, exoticized as any unfamiliar place would be.”

– From Smack Mellon website (http://www.smackmellon.org/pastex/0505_fifteen.html)

– Read Metro article (http://ny.metro.us)