Earlier in the GammaBlog

Photo by Sam Horine - f.trainer on Flickr. Sam says it may have been preserved by being behind a roll-up door. My guess is that the cutouts date from some time in 2003.

Amidst the garbage. Lower East Side, Manhattan.

Keep an eye on the Miss Rockaway Armada, floating down the Mississippi.
They have a blog.
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Swoon pasted these amazing cut-outs a couple of months ago. I saw a few photos show up on Flickr, but I hadn’t found any of them myself.

I wrote Swoon and told her how much I liked them. She replied: “thanks, glad you like the bony mermaid, i was in florida when i made that, out in the ocean swimming and the image showed up in my head in one piece so i just had to draw it. sometimes the strangest things…”
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Fellow Flickrite Luna Park clued me in on where in North Williamsburg to find this one. Thanks Luna.View Large

July 07 — August 13, 2005
Deitch Gallery
76 Grand Street, New York
Opening 7 PM, Thursday, July 7.
The first New York solo exhibition by SWOON. Turning the 76 Grand Street gallery into a ramshackle labyrinthine city of paper and paint, SWOON will be producing her most ambitious installation to date.

For this exhibition, SWOON will be transforming both the fa�ade and the interior of the gallery into a handmade cityscape full of hidden corners to discover. Taking Kawloon Walled City as a creative point of departure, she hopes to evoke the spontaneous, unregulated, and often dangerous development that took place in the autonomous Hong Kong slum before it was bulldozed in 1993. Reproducing rooms upon rooms, illegal balconies, and unregulated creativity will fill this exhibition, as will dramatic cutouts of scaffolding, power lines, elevated trains, and all the imposing infrastructure of the city.