Small Worlds
July 2008
New York City
Wheat Paste + Social Networking Site
Small Worlds is a test of how far people will go to jump through the hoops of the NYC real estate world.
Following in the vein of street art I began installing miniature doors at street level in various places around New York City. The doors began to take on a life of their own once installed and even grew in popularity on the internet. After placing up a few dozen of the doors I posted an image of the door on craigslist with it's precise address. I described the place and even offered to rent it. In the posting the value of the rent was created based off of the size of the actual wheat pasted door multiplied by the real estate value in that particular area. Due to the impossibility of renting a space that exists as a flat piece of paper the project more or less is a representation of the absurd value of property in NYC.
