Shines Sculpture

By utilizing rap lyrics as a found object, I camouflage and re-contextualize these signifiers in plane sight. By changing the aesthetics of hip-hop culture into one we interpret as institutional or conventional, they now have the appearance of a common street sign. Viewers in the street may initially read these lines as poetry because of their location and that they are void of the cultural stereotypes associated with the sub-culture. In the end, I hope to engage deeper racial and cultural issues through an accessible medium and context.