Make Art Not War, Greene Street, SoHo, New York City, New York, USA, 2004

Make Art Not War was photographed on Greene Street in SoHo, New York City, in 2004. The image records a layered urban facade covered with graffiti, street posters, handbills, tags, and political text.

The phrase “Make Art Not War” anchors the photograph, but the surrounding wall is equally important. Competing marks and images accumulate across the storefront, turning the surface into a record of public speech, commercial residue, protest, repetition, and erasure.

The passing figure gives the scene its human scale. He is not separate from the wall; he moves through the same field of signs, weathered surfaces, and street-level history. The photograph treats the city as a layered archive, where memory is written, covered, damaged, and rewritten in public view.