Don’t walk, walk, 1997

colour photo, perspex, aluminium
180 x 270 cm
edition 5 + 1 AP

Don’t walk, walk, 1997

study – colour photo, perspex, aluminium
21 x 29 cm

Note / MvW: ‘I stood waiting at a pedestrian crossing on 5th Avenue and saw that both signs were lit simultaneously. That resulted in comical confusion. I immediately wanted to make a film of this. The New York Police Department provided me with traffic lights that could be switched on and off manually. The film I made with this was rather dull so it eventually became a photograph.’