Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2002SYR08
Purchase Details
11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
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An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
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Poem Inspiration Location
Glowing Neon Bright
poster information
Description
Glowing neon bright
the Salt City's art deco
stainless steel night light.
Since they redid the lighting of the Niagara Mohawk building, the building has really become a monument in Syracuse. I'm a big fan of art deco, anyway. You can't build those buildings anymore. And here you have this incredible glow that comes up from these tiers in the building.
As for the “nightlight,” I have one in my bathroom. Somehow the two dovetailed. I kept thinking, here's this funky little plate, and the glow is behind it. And with the building, you've got this facade, and you get a glowing light behind it. I thought, you know, that's like a nightlight. Syracuse is a big sleepy city—so there you go. Click it on, click it off—it's NiMo.
I had several poems to choose from, but I picked the Niagara Mohawk building, because I've always had an interest in the building, and I'm somewhat into the art deco movement.
It's a beautiful building. It definitely has a fantastic quality, like a science fiction fantasy—something mythical. I try to interject a lot of that, look for that, in illustration.
The poem provided a lot of the initial inspiration. Reading the poem and thinking what the poet was visualizing, and merging that with my own image.
I was also trying for a sense of drama. A sense of drama with the point of view, which is kind of the normal point of view that people see when they walk or drive by the building. But also a sense of drama with the light, which is captured by the poem.