Alberto Out of the Box DAy 5

When I arrived to the Box, one of my informants disbursed that the fire hydrant Mini Site was gone. In deed, the surface was wiped clean. Was it an angry anti-art manifesto? was it a dog tail or a sneeze? We will never know.

Closely analizing the scene, I found the remains of the Site, which appeared to have been struck evenly, impacting the surface in a flat manner, directly from above.

From this scarce evidence, we can only speculate. Perhaps someone went: "Oh yeah, "art"?... WHAM!!"

or perhaps the fire hydrant simply served (as it would in the Southside on a Friday night) as the support system for someone in desperate need for an anchor to the horizontal plane that is the ground. We will never know for sure, unless the perpetrator confesses.

In either case, I went and re-did it!

But last night was a SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE SOUTHSIDE...

I wonder if ANY of the mini sites survived... :)

I will find out today, Sunday June 19, 2011; during my last day doing Art Out of the Box. I will be there, in the corner of 12th and Carson, from around 1 till 8pm.

During the day on Sat, I installed a number of new things, like this bench (someone had mentioned something about that bus stop needing a bench... hey I did what I could...)

And also had lots of great conversations, sharing the secret location of the Mini Sites with as many people as I could.

I am now working on creating a third photo-video to share all the rest of the sites, locations and audience interactions. Hopefully I'll have it done by tomorrow or so. Meanwhile, to watch the first two Mini Site clips click HERE.

Finally,

people keep asking me to create a map with the site locations. I like the idea and might do it, but for now I just haven't had much time to do anything other than make sites, install them, photograph them, show them and talk to people.

So this morning my son surprised me with a wonderful father's day surprise!

Yes, a fully accurate detailed map displaying all the secret site locations plus some other landmarks, such as the box, me, Samantha... and Totoro the friendly monster

Secret site locations are marked here in light blue. So there you have it! now you can easily locate the sites yourself. Otherwise, you can come talk to me Today, for the last stretch of Art Out of the Box in the Southside. Make sure you also check out the three upcoming residencies, and stay tuned for one last blog post from me.

(By the Way, if you actually find a Mini Site solely from my son's map, make sure you talk to me for a special award)

Thanks for stoping by!

AA11