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Created on : 11/11/2010
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rom the artist's ongoing series in many media
titled 'ARMY BOOTS', public intervention with stenciled spray paint (lasted up to two weeks on the asphalt.
“Reclaiming Footpaths”
Date and location: Nov 5th – 12th, throughout the streets of Inner City Amman
Aiming to underscore Amman’s pedestrian spirit, this public art piece is spread on thirty four roads emanating from the central downtown valley. Steep and sharp, these roads are built over people’s tracks since time immemorial going down natural paths. An asphalt layer now claims over one fourth of the visual environment around these roads and is the clearest, most continuous, vertical element. As the conveyer of machine movement, this asphalt cover is the terrain of spontaneous conflict between inhabitants as pedestrians or drivers in the public forum of the streets. Unlike other terrains, these are areas where going down the hilly bends, a pedestrian feels most powerful against the lumbering traffic, and going up, a driver’s vision is set against the open black climb. Here I will jaywalk at leisure by night leaving behind on the asphalt spray paint prints of colorful, larger than life, florescent footsteps against the grain of the upward automotive track.
Saada
Army Boot sole print locations around Amman/ Saada and crew
- Hussein Mountain, uphill from Al Abdali
- Hussein Mountain, Hussein service line uphill, near Downtown
- Hussein Mountain, Khalid Bin Al Waleed st. uphill, near Firas Circle
- Al Abdali, near Syrian car depot
- Beginning of Urdun st. uphill
- Kussour mountain, beginning of Kussour Service line uphill
- Wadi Al Hadada uphill, before major bend
- Qalaa mountain, Shabsough Uphill from Roman Amphitheatre side
- Jofeh mountain, Jofeh service line uphill near Downtown
- Basman uphill in downtown
- Taj mountain, uphill near Mahata st.
- Al Musdar, uphill near Red Crescent Hospital
- Al Wehdat, uphill near the x vegetable market
- Al Akhdar mountain, market uphill
- Al Akhdar mountain, uphill near the Cigarette Factory
- Al Akhdar mountain, uphill near Al Ramlah Al Baidaa Mosque
- Television uphill from Ras Al Ein direction
- Abdoun, Abdoun Village valley uphill, Ameer Ali Bin Al Hussein st., after village
- Abdoun, Abdoun valley uphill, Ameera Basma st., near mosque
- Abdoun, Qahera st. uphill after Abdoun circle
- Shemaisani, 7 Eleven uphill
- Wadi Saqra, uphill near Social Security building
- Amman mountain, Ras Al Ein uphill towards Third Circle, after first intersection
- Amman mountain, Hayek uphill near downtown
- Amman mountain, Prince Mohammad st. uphill, before Al Burj building
- Al Luwaibdah, uphill from Wadi Saqra near Al Rifaee school
- Al Luwaibdah, Khayam cinema uphill near Darat Al Funun
- Al Luwaibdah, uphill towards Paris circle, near Ibrahim Touqan st. intersection
- Al Rabia, uphill from Pharmacy One, before circle
- Al Rabia, Itisalat uphill
- Mecca st. uphill near Social Security building
- Wadi al Seer uphill, near 16 st. intersection
- Ein Ghazal uphill
- Marka, beginning of Beit Ummar st. uphill (Meat Packers)
- Awajan, behind King Hussein Sports City, near Sports Faculty
- Northern Hashemi mountain, Bat’ha st., market area
- Southern Hashemi mountain, Mhamoud kraishan st. uphill
- Tarek, Tabarbour, Shaheed neighborhood, near Amman municipality building
- Al Ashrafia mountain, uphill near Ashrafia circle
- Mareekh Mountain, first intersection in Mareekh uphill
- Natheef mountain, first intersection in Natheef uphill
- Nuzha mountain, uphill towards Nuzha circle from Hussein mountain
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from the artist's ongoing series of works in many media
titled 'ARMY BOOTS'
height= 220 cm
iron, clay, old army boot, and fiberglss
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from the artist's ongoing series of works
in many media titled 'ARMY BOOTS"
height= 140cm,
iron,old army boots and oil paints
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from the artist's ongoing series of works
in many media titled "ARMY BOOTS"
height= 85 cm.
artist's original in fiberglass
available in aluminum replica
