Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2013SYR07
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.
You also receive…
An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
Medium- and large-format posters are available by custom order. Contact us for details.
Poem Inspiration Location
Large Buildings Stand Tall
poster information
Description
Large buildings stand tall
The center always crowded
Square blocks building lofts
I like things that help me paint vivid pictures, and now I feel like words do that for me. I reside in the downtown area, so being an observer, when I think “downtown” I think tall buildings. You have Armory Square—everywhere you look you see blocks; it's like a giant Lego world.
I normally don't do haiku, so having the option of sitting there and really being creative brightened my horizons and made me better as an artist. This collaboration really shows that S.U. has so many talented people, the same way that Syracuse does. Even if you have an outsider versus an insider, they still make something great just by coming together for something as simple as the Poster Project.
As far as the reason why I chose that poem, it was because I really liked that it was specific, yet it also allowed me enough room that I didn't have to depict a specific scene. When I was taking pictures downtown, that scene just kind of hit me because of all the dynamic angles between those beautiful buildings in Columbus Circle. It all just kind of came together for me with that particular spot in the city. The “Square blocks building lofts,” line really put this image in my mind of a more geometric and accurate looking scene.