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Jan. 20th, 2023 04:18 pm* For isometric stuff, I have a process I swear it's just a mess:
* If you live in Portland and are recently like 'woah that's a lot of ghost bikes', it's because of an idiot transplant who is just putting them up willy-nilly. Like, kid's bikes in front of schools and even people's fucking houses.
(Context for non-Cascadians - Ghost Bikes are white painted bikes used to memorialize cyclists who died in traffic accidents. This is not exclusively a Portland thing, but we have a local group that coordinates, maintains and fights to protect the memorials. So, waking up and seeing one in front of your house or at your kid's school would make you think a kid literally just died right there, maybe one you knew.)
He's been spoken to by local bike activists and says he 'may consider' doing them in a different color and apparently people are 'free to repaint' his existing 'installments'. The correct response would have been 'sorry, I'll take down the bikes that are upsetting people and move onto a different art project'
Obviously, I am very pro-Portland's urban art scene but the breathtaking entitlement and disregard for the local culture is amazing here. I mean, he's put them up on elementary school property and in other people's yards. wtf...
* If you live in Portland and are recently like 'woah that's a lot of ghost bikes', it's because of an idiot transplant who is just putting them up willy-nilly. Like, kid's bikes in front of schools and even people's fucking houses.
(Context for non-Cascadians - Ghost Bikes are white painted bikes used to memorialize cyclists who died in traffic accidents. This is not exclusively a Portland thing, but we have a local group that coordinates, maintains and fights to protect the memorials. So, waking up and seeing one in front of your house or at your kid's school would make you think a kid literally just died right there, maybe one you knew.)
He's been spoken to by local bike activists and says he 'may consider' doing them in a different color and apparently people are 'free to repaint' his existing 'installments'. The correct response would have been 'sorry, I'll take down the bikes that are upsetting people and move onto a different art project'
Obviously, I am very pro-Portland's urban art scene but the breathtaking entitlement and disregard for the local culture is amazing here. I mean, he's put them up on elementary school property and in other people's yards. wtf...
