We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space, Collage Study 4

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A print by Sekou Cooke as part of the collage studies from “We Outchea: Hip-Hop Fabrications and Public Space.” The print is a black-and-white outline of a portion of the public housing complex Pioneer Houses in Syracuse, New York. The top view captures the vertical layout of the complex with the street end at the bottom. On top of the public housing outline are other structures filled with grid patterns, three in the top half and five in the bottom. Slightly below the center is an interior layout. There are four orange staircase plans at the corners of the interior layout. Screen printed across the print is an outline of building plans in a dark color ink. The screen printed image captures the end text of two intersecting streets [STREET] and [ND]. The artist signed the print in the front, lower right corner in graphite: [S Cooke 2020 / AP].

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