Video: Pedestrians of all countries, unite
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Green, red, yellow traffic lights and funny people depicted on them. It would seem, what could be more familiar and more commonplace? But no! It turns out that every country and every city has its own designs of these little people, as everywhere else has its own designs of traffic lights.
And there are tons of people who track them and share their findings with a wider audience. For example, the Russian designer Artemy Lebedev, who regularly uploads photographs of traffic lights from his many travels. And the artist Maya Barkai has created an unusual exhibition of figures of people from traffic lights around the world.
This exhibit is located on the fence that encloses a construction site at 99 Church Street on Manhattan Island in New York. It depicts as many as ninety-nine figures of "traffic light people" from the ninety-nine largest cities in the world.
There are people from Tel Aviv, Vancouver, Florence, Utrecht, Moscow, of course, New York itself and many other megacities. Each of these figurines is the size of an adult male.
And the exhibition of Maya Barkai Walking Men has not only cognitive and aesthetic functions. This is, first of all, a social advertisement, once again reminding pedestrians that it is possible to cross the street only in green. And in some places (actually, at intersections), these figures are also additional traffic lights for pedestrians.
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