Draw the Line
© 2013
Media: acrylic on bedsheets
Location: in the studio
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3 x 100 feet
••• For those of you with low vision:
This is a photograph of around 80-100 cyclists standing, or kneeling in the front row, at The South Street Seaport on a bright sunny day, holding a long white fabric banner, so long that it spans the breadth of their line-up, doubles back, and then stretches across a third time, like a long white line. Thiis 100-foot banner reads: PRESIDENT OBAMA, LET'S DRAW THE LINE! SAY NO TO THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE... NOW! CYCLISTS UNITED WITH #NOKXL @350 350.ORG
The cyclists are all wearing the red, white and blue jersey of the Climate Ride, which rides from New York City to Washington DC to lobby for climate justice. They are standing in front of, and beneath the overarching black bow of the giant clipper ship Peking, one of the last four-masted sailing ships built to transport nitrate in the South American nitrate route from Europe to Chile around Cape Horn, one of the last trades for which sailships could compete. The cyclists were promoting the call to end the Keystone pipeline project to carry the dirtiest fossil fuel from the tar sands in Canada. This was a day of action in countries around the world...September 21, 2013.
The letters are painted in Futura typeface, caps only, in kelly green, except those that are written in bold on this page are painted in fire-engine red.
