"For the People" was a public art piece in collaboration with Ana Mikolavich. Interested in relocalizing and engaging citizens in their communities, we sought to create a new mode of street signage, site specific, and oriented to the pedestrian.

As it is now, the intention of street signage is to transmit information quickly, using the least amount of symbols required for visual comprehension. While the immediacy warns and protects drivers from harm, the intent ultimately is to regulate the efficient transit through a space.

Through these small, site-specific, original paintings, we invite the passer to slow down and experience the places through which they travel. The signs themselves become a point of interest, rather than just directional, prompting foot-passengers to pursue the act of discovery of the signs themselves. In this way, we hope to encourage on-foot exploration, inviting the driver our of their car to an experience only accessible to the pedestrian.

While these signs have been designed to go along side vehicular signage, it is our hope that societies move away from oil-based automobile transportation, towards alternative modes of transport.

This exploration also serves as a suggestion for signage that might result in such a pedestrian-oriented society, where the signs would ideally result from a relationship between communities and governments with local artists, as commissions of one-of-a-kind, site-specific paintings/illustrations, etc. directing citizens to any services they might seek: (restrooms, water fountains, food: cafés, restaurants, bars? outdoor seating, mail boxes, police and fire stations, parks and monuments, etc.)