PRESS KIT
November 4th 2006

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Exciting Infographic
Comparing MOMO by MOMO to other monumental works
PDF version available here



* http://www.robertsmithson.com
** http://www.diacenter.org
*** http://www.topozone.com
**** www.newyorkhistory.info

Story Lead-Ins:

An American Journey

More than a reinvention of New York's most famous export, the one-liner tag also serves as a path leading pedestrians astray through landmark neighborhoods and city parks.


Its 2006 and respect for Old School is everywhere.

Technology leads street art again! Using a map, kids are able to plot things too large for the eyes- and a 5 gallon bucket carries more paint than a single gallon bucket...

Aware that he's refferencing Adam Purple's 1989 Footprints, MOMO adds: "I was in the 5th grade and came to the city for a wedding and wandered off, following these purple feet. I've thought of them ever since. Such a cool work. It gets further into how we live; it follows us, or we, it. Very clever. I assumed what I'd seen as a child was obscure and lost forever under two decades of 8 million New Yorkers, but google pulled it right up."


"look at me, I dripped some paint on the street" -M.Carter

Adam Purple, the gardening anarchist who is 75 years old now, painted foot steps all over lower Manhattan in the late 80's. For more on his life and work
try these links:

New York Times

Garden of Eden


+ Music in the video
by Gabriel Yared
from "Dangerous Moves"
a French film about chess.