Tyree Guyton's Rosa Parks Street Sign

Tyree Guyton’s Rosa Parks Street SignFragment from the Heidelberg Project Art Installation Jamaal May (bio) Scuffs sweep across the entire rutty surface.The center is so twisted the edges have become sharp.The sign appears larger here than it wouldfixed to its original post watching the boulevard.This tells me something about the distance from skydown to curb and gutter. I’m learning what a boltcan do; the small bistre one, situatedbetween holes that were rivets once, holdsmetal to metal, sign to L-shaped bracket.Rosa Parks. Her name is clear on the leftbut obscured at the end where the final S is gouged.A white square and sketch of a bus hidesboulevard. A tour guide enters with a group,begins, “Many of us might not consider this art, but ...” [End Page 870] Jamaal May Jamaal May, the founding editor of Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook and Video Series, is author of Hum, which was published in 2013 by Alice James Books and winner of its Beatrice Hawley Award. Copyright © 2014 The Johns Hopkins University Press

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Boulevard · Hum · Performance art · Sketch · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · History · Mathematics · Photography and Visual Culture