LIVING LINES by Harmattan Theater, SoHo, june 6, 09

The Living Lines Project is an experimental project in documenting human movement against the built environments in different scales of urban mapping.  Taking three principles of distance as a working logic: the close up, the long shot and the hand held camera, three illustrators mapped the DeSalvio Playground in real time.  Drawing the outlines of animate and inanimate landscapes across different fields: horizontal, vertical and perpendicular, as well as in states of stasis and motion, the installation captures an intrinsic moment in time.  The drawings were executed with black in on Mylar and Acetate.  They were hung across the park as a clothesline, citing NoLiTa's history of italian immigrant life and its domestic visuality of hanging clotheslines.

The Living Lines project opens up the scales of interaction as distinctive threads of movement that collide, overlay, superimpose and eventually, melt away against the throbbing urban bustle.  The installation was created by Victoria Marshall, Jose De Jesus and May Joseph, for HarmattanTheater.