HALLWAY HIGHWAYS

Using expressions culled from a survey distributed to the students of the school, a continuous line of words covering over 1300 running feet of hallway flooring in the configuration of highway markings.

The flooring is ordinary vinyl tiles (black) with the center strips custom cut and inlaid with either white or yellow vinyl. The hallways are nine feet wide and the tiles are one foot square each.

Commissioned by the New York City School Construction Authority
Artwork for Port Richmond High School, Staten Island
started 1991, completed 1995