Eleven Statements about Line Markers (2003)

Eleven Statements about Line Markers:

1. Line markers are cultural compass cards, worldly in scope.
2. Line markers are graffiti’s distant cousin, a tag in time, if not actually in creative step.
3. Line markers are compliance and familiarity tenuously balanced by vigilance and the unexpected.
4. Line markers are idea trips full of subtle gestures, windows wound down.
5. Line markers seek to communicate in a non-picturesque way, happy to hum rather than sing.
6. Line markers are a street’s pop culture signifier, cradling the written word but not the slogan.
7. Line markers are hard emotive currency.
8. Line markers are terra tattoos, bestowed without prejudice and never on a whim.
9. Line markers constitute a pseudo-primary palette with accompanying tones.
10. Line markers are wires for pedestrians and margins for vehicles – all moving, balletic in their unity, choreographed á la Tati.
11. Line markers are common men

2004 Mercer Union Roadworks Performance Festival