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     How an image functions changes when that image is partially destroyed.  It loses its power in one way, but also gains a new aspect aesthetically.  Most often the image is destroyed by the deliberate act of some person.  This is a large plate of shattered glass with the poster attached to the back of it, mosaicized and slumping under its own weight.  One ceases to be interested in the sale and more concerned with the installation itself.  "Who did that?  It looks cool. It looks dangerous. Will it fall down?"

     When a public image is altered, it is always a matter or time before someone will be sent out to "fix it."  This is a figure of St. Anthony in front of the parish on Sullivan St.  He is cloaked in a torn laundry bag.

    A vacant lot for sale in Chelsea.  The "artist" has used plastic bags, themselves a waste product, to weave text into the fence.  It is a message that is emblematic of our technological dependence and occasional disappointment, right up there with "loading" or "open in new window."  It functions as a joke because it is so ubiquitous, but bitterly ironic that it is in front of an overgrown "wasted" patch of land in the city.  The "no image" implies, "This space is nothing- there is no building, business, or store here.  Do not bother."

     A wide sidewalk in Soho was re-purposed as a public protest for the protection of workers.  On the 101st anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in nearby Greenwich Village, the artist questions just how few we think we're come in our time.  It reminded me of the "articles of the day" that Wikipedia posts, or the "on this day" lists of one-liner history that people read for passing amusement.