Townscape

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Townscape, a three-screen slide show, is composed of close-up details of urban architecture—storefronts, road signs, street markings, graphics, manhole covers, and overhead wires. A soundtrack of city noises—snatches of random conversations overheard on the street, sounds from bars and shops, and traffic noises—accompanies the slides. The last part of the track incorporates a recording of Gertrude Stein reading “The Living and the Dead,” a passage from her essay “The Making of Americans.”

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