Blur

BLUR's intent is to question why we travel. Why do we spend money to visit some of the most beautiful places in the world? On any given day, hundreds of visitors line the cobblestones of Washington Street to capture the same scene: the Manhattan Bridge centered in the street, with brick warehouses flanking it. Over and over again. The site has become one of the most documented urban viewpoints in the world. It has also become a place where the photograph has begun to replace the experience that produced it.

BLUR interrupts the ritual. The installation does not remove the view; it replaces it with a version ofitself, slightly out of focus, slightly wrong. A view that visitors cannot photograph their way through.

What remains is the space itself: the cobblestones, the light, the scale of the street. BLUR asks whether a place can be experienced once the photograph it promises is no longer available and treats the uncertainty of the answer as the point.

The 7-day installation would be a blurred photograph of the Manhattan Bridge, mounted on lightweight scaffolding and set in front of the view it depicts.