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REVISITING ZAP 7: LANCE SMITH

6/27/2016

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Lance Smith at the Clark County resortation of his ZAP 7 art I Photo: PaintThisDesert
FIELD NOTES: The eradication and recovery of "Our Lady of Maryland Parkway," the ZAP 7 box by artist Lance Smith, changes the meaning of the piece. It is now a marker of a time when artists, and the civic community that enables art, rallied and supported public art when it was challenged.  It also becomes a jumping off point to revisit text I first wrote for Clark County's ZAP 7 site map.  Some will return original words that were edited for space. Others may touch on how the boxes have changed in meaning and representation. ​
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"Our Lady of Maryland Parkway" before being painted over I Photo: Paint This Desert
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​REVISITED:  The main set of images on these utility boxes are figures posed in reflection and guidance, a guardian watching over the walkers and drivers along and on Maryland Parkway. The blue-hooded figure, in front of the distant desert mountain range, shows street smart spiritual fellowship on a main road that functions as passage, and a vessel that creates memory of the every day. It was painted within a project designed to bring artist's colors to Maryland Parkway. It was painted over in beige, perhaps, because it represented color.
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