PROJECT   Specific Sites
       
PARTICIPANT   Multiple Requestors
     
LOCATION   Various Places Across the United States
     
REQUEST   Lewis Watts:
Find and document examples of people who have marked their space or expressed themselves using their hands. Hand made signs, yard sculpture, real insider art, anything not mass produced.

Tania Katan:
About 9 years ago, when I was very much in love (for the 2nd time- at that point), my girlfriend and I took our first a road trip together. En route to Sedona, we decided that our immediate and intense connection needed to be announced in some profound and permanent way. We needed to let the world know about our love (or at least the people who drank too much beer or water along highway 89 and had to pull over). On the south side of that eucalyptus tree we proclaimed our love- T.K. + F.T.= True Love Always or Together Forever or '93 or some sentiment that suggested that we would be together for FOREVER. Shortly after that road trip we broke up, but what about all the other roadside-relationships? Where are the embodiments of the initials etched in rocks, in cement, in regrets? What about L.P. + L.C.=TLA of Hope, Arizona? Did their love last "Always?" Did L.P. develop an unhealthy obsession with pornography pushing the puritanical L.C. away and in search of a vortex to fill the void left by L.P.? While in Sedona, instead of finding a vortex, did L.C. find love (Forever) in the arms of F.T.? Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to find the pluses (and minuses) that equal a roadside-relationship. In each state, find the cryptic carvings that denote the beginning of a relationship and complete the stories in any form that you desire.