At 3 PM on August 28th, 2004, Illegal Art, in association with the Imagine Festival of Art, Issues and Ideas, began an urban chalk poem written on the sidewalk around Bryant Park to illustrate freedom of speech. With the help of about 120 passers by to carry us along on their written word, we traveled from the western corner of 6th Avenue and 41st Street to the northern end of Bryant Park at 42nd Street in just over an hour. Only briefly stopped by the police, the poem was completed with great success.
A special thank you to everyone at the Imagine Festival, Jason Salfi, Chris Beach, Cassidy Friedman, Cailtin Sullivan and Sydney McCall.
Poem Across the City – Bryant Park, NY 8-28-04
Sky blue
So is NYC too
Rhythm
Umbles
Beauty is running through he jungle in the night
Sticky icky
Be silent
Comsume
Die
Send the son of a Bush home
Cometogether
Chara & Daddy
No more Bush
Universal Survey Peace Together
This river of comtemplation will survive
NYC is nice & me too
Food for all
America is a smoke screen
¡Que vivan Las Americas!
America is crazy
Happy to make a pink exploding idea of change now talk to one another
Happy Day is here
I wanted to say something but why should I want to
Like a mighty octopus America reigns almighty
Everyone is beautiful even…you
First time in NYC
Bush go home. Word
Bush needs to find better business
Drop down. Drop Bush. Drop words on the sidewalk.
Forget the world
The mic is yours
George Bush bugger off
Recover initiative
Break with the conversation
Hello
My Name
George
Speak Out
Silence
Is
Not
Allowed
Talk
Back
Destroy Apathy
Yeah!
Bugger OFF W
O’rielly Says
“Shut up!”
Real
Problems
Real
Responsibility
Take it
imagine
solutions
NEW YORK
TO GEORGE
BUSH GET OUT
keep your
eyes open
FALUN
DAFA
IS GOOD!
CHINA STOP
PERSECUTING
THE HEART
HAS ROOM
FOR THE TRUTH
EQUAL MARRIAGE
RIGHTS FRO ALL
NOW
= Marriage
4 (2 female signs) (2 male signs)
(female + male)
PEACE
AND
LOVE
YOU ARE
AN ARTIST
SEE PEACE
LOVE NOT
BUSH!
SOUTH CAROLINA
SAYS NO
TO BUSH’S WARS
LOOK
UP
WE
BELONG
BUGGER
WAR IS
BUSHSHIT
THE FOX IS
MY HEART
ONE
WORLD
AS IF
MY NAME IS Sophie
PLEASE HELP ME
HOMELESSS
UNBIASED AND =
PIECES
OF PEACE
IN
MY HEART
STARTS & STOPS
WITH STARS
(ANARCHY SIGN)
Believe! Enjoy! Fight!
EL EMBARGO
ENCONTRA CUBA
ES LA RESPUESTA
DE LA TIRANIA
WE
KNOW
I
NEW YORK
Peanee
PEACE
IN AMERICA
Deja
Lo
Salir
Kathy
NYC = smile
ONE
LIFE 2
LIVE
I Love
NY
PEACE &
IN
U.S.A.
PEACE
ON EARTH
IMAGINE
SWIMMING
Through
the heat
Celebrate
uncensored
thought
EVE
PEACE
Diversity
Peace in the
world
The PRESIDENT
IS AN
IMPOSTER
Energy Is
RISING
Nyc
GOOD People
Wanted
More Trees
Less BUSH
President
Bush Think
About US!
America
My name
Is Janieu
Eyes open
Diversity
=
Awareness
I’m voting
Against the
Evil – Bush
None is
crying
out for
Justice – Tosh
Peace, love
UNDERSTANDIG!
Ms. Sophie
AFUERA
BUSH
Shamone, Nic
In NYC