Ghost Parking Lot
Ghost Parking Lot
National Shopping Centers - 1977
Ghost Parking Lot - National Shopping Centers parking lot - Hamden, CT - USA - 1977 - Buick car enclosed by the asphalt parking surface
Twenty automobiles are buried under asphalt at various graduated levels, from full exposure of the body contours to complete envelopment by the paving. Contrary to the prevalent use of “object art” as a decorative accessory to buildings and public spaces, this fusion of typically mobile artifacts with their environment takes advantage of people’s subliminal connections with the rituals of shopping center merchandising and the fetishism of American car culture. Also, unlike public art conceived from a private art perspective, this project cannot be removed or exhibited apart from its context without a total loss of meaning.
Ghost Parking Lot - National Shopping Centers parking lot - Hamden, CT - USA - 1977 - Main section of asphalt covered automobiles
Ghost Parking Lot - National Shopping Centers parking lot - Hamden, CT - USA - 1977 - Project under construction
Ghost Parking Lot - National Shopping Centers parking lot - Hamden, CT - USA - 1977 - Section of the project facing Hamden's main boulevard
Ghost Parking Lot - National Shopping Centers parking lot - Hamden, CT - USA - 1977 - Asphalt covered convertible with local high school students
Ghost Parking Lot - National Shopping Centers parking lot - Hamden, CT - USA - 1977 - General overview of the asphalt-covered cars
