Scribble Pictures

2023 to 2024 · digital over photograph · 48 pieces

Street photographs of New York, Toronto and Vancouver with cartoon drawing over them: faceless people, scribbled signs, soft cars, and from late 2023 a growing population of creatures and invented clouds.

An aerial photograph of midtown Manhattan from a glass tower, with cartoon clouds on the horizon and dozens of cartoon creatures and blocks floating among the skyscrapers, including a totem tower, a grey shark and a snow capped building, labelled DSNYC 1/1 2024.

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A night photograph of Times Square with neon billboards, where the ads are overwritten with scribbles and the models given blank faces, a crowd of tourists with cartoon heads, cartoon taxis, and a street artist drawing portraits of blank faced people, labelled SP 49 2024.

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A photograph of a midtown Manhattan street under construction, with a long grey cartoon fence running down the sidewalk, a green copper skybridge between towers, a red building with a scribbled sign, and a few pedestrians redrawn as outlined figures, labelled SP 47 2024.

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A photograph of the DUMBO flea market under the Manhattan Bridge anchorage arch, where the shoppers have cartoon heads, a boxy creature sits in the foreground, and a horned creature with a backpack sits on a bench at right, labelled SP 46 2024.

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A photograph of a Japanese garden in autumn where the pink foliage of a tree has been redrawn as a dense cluster of small pink, peach and cream cartoon creatures with eyes and ears, beside real green maple leaves, labelled SP 45 2024.

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A photograph inside a mirrored observation deck high above Manhattan, with hundreds of visitors reflected on every surface, all redrawn as outlined cartoon figures with blank faces, labelled SP 44 2024.

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A photograph of Barclays Center and a gold glass tower on Atlantic Avenue with the sky filled by outlined cartoon clouds, and a dense crowd of pedestrians crossing the street redrawn as outlined cartoon figures with blank faces, labelled SP40.

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A low angle photograph from beneath the Brooklyn Bridge roadway, its steel underside filling the top half, with a plaza of walking people below redrawn as outlined cartoon figures, labelled SP38.

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A photograph of the Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn Bridge Park's pebble beach, with a cartoon boat on the river and people on the shore redrawn as outlined cartoon figures with blank faces, signed 24.

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A photograph of a downtown Brooklyn street with a hat vendor's table, where a large pale blue cartoon dinosaur with a long neck stands over a green cartoon bus body, blue luggage creatures sit on the sidewalk, and small creatures hang on a lamp post, signed 24.

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A low angle photograph of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank clock tower in Brooklyn, wrapped in a tower of outlined cartoon clouds with small creatures hiding in them, above the Atlantic Avenue station entrance and a street of cartoon cars and creatures, labelled SP42.

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A photograph of a narrow yellow brick corner building in Brooklyn with an orange fire escape and a pharmacy at street level, where the pharmacy sign is scribbled out, the window posters blanked to pastel panels, and a figure in a yellow jacket walks away at right, labelled SP 43 2024.

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A photograph at Bedford Avenue and Sullivan Place in Brooklyn beside the old Ebbets Field site, with a woman in a blue dress walking away with a cartoon head, a lamp post covered in drawn signals and signs, apartment towers outlined in white, and cartoon cars, labelled SP41.

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A low angle photograph of downtown Brooklyn towers and a domed bank from Fulton Mall, with cartoon clouds, a huge horned creature peeking from behind a tower, a dragon on the plaza, pod creatures in the street, and a tall cream creature at right, labelled SP35.

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A photograph in DUMBO of a stone building beside the Manhattan Bridge, where a second photograph of a brick building is drawn into the sky as cartoon cloud shapes, a pink ice cream truck is outlined at the bottom, and food cart customers are drawn as blank outlines, signed 24.

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A photograph looking down on Ditmas Avenue from the elevated F train, with cartoon clouds filling the sky, pod creatures walking the sidewalk past a yellow brick building, cartoon cars parked along the kerb, and a large grey creature with a green tail at the bottom, signed 24.

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A photograph of Brooklyn Bridge Park with a large tree whose leaves are redrawn as flat yellow green lobes, the Manhattan skyline behind, and a crowd of people with cartoon outlined bodies and blank faces on the pier, signed 24.

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A photograph of the DUMBO flea market under the Manhattan Bridge arches, where every shopper has become a hooded pod creature with horns or ears, sitting on wooden steps and browsing clothing racks, signed 24.

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A photograph of a cobblestone SoHo street with cast iron buildings, where the parked cars have become a row of fish like creatures with fins and eyes, one in iridescent pink and orange in the foreground, labelled SP 29 2024.

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A photograph beneath the BQE overpass at Columbia Street with a graffiti mural, where a tall pink signal box has grown horns and a tail, a traffic pole wears a purple creature's body, and the sidewalk is bleached tan, signed 24.

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A photograph of a Canal Street sidewalk handbag market where the shoppers have cartoon heads, the handbags have grown horns and eyes, the cars are soft cartoon shapes, and a smoke plume rises behind a stone bank building, signed 24.

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A photograph of a Greenwich Village corner shop beneath a billboard, where the billboard has been repainted as a cartoon of a hand, a second billboard shows a cartoon suitcase, a yellow cab is redrawn as a cartoon, and small creatures perch on the building, signed 24.

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A dusk photograph of a Houston Street corner with tenements and a glass tower, where giant cartoon creatures sit on the rooftops, a faceless figure is projected on the tower, bins have grown horns, and a couple stand at the crossing, signed 24.

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A night photograph of the neon sign at Katz's Delicatessen on Ludlow Street, with the lettering replaced by scribbled pink neon squiggles and a queue of people with blank cartoon heads along the sidewalk, signed 24.

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A photograph of a Brooklyn farmers market at Church and Beverley with a lamp post, white umbrellas and a brick building, where a pink two legged creature sits on the plaza, small creatures stand on the pavement, and a faceless man walks past, signed 24.

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A photograph looking down a Manhattan avenue from the High Line toward Hudson Yards, with the traffic redrawn as soft white, grey and blue cartoon cars, two faceless pedestrians at a crossing, and a bright blue sky with real clouds, signed 23.

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A photograph from the High Line of a Chelsea street with a colourful mural of Mother Teresa and Gandhi, where a rooftop has a cartoon mountain drawn on it, buses and cars are redrawn as cartoons, and scribbled text covers a wall, signed 23.

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A photograph beneath the FDR Drive on the lower Manhattan greenway, with the sky packed with outlined cartoon clouds above glass towers and a tower under construction, and a crowd of walkers redrawn as outlined cartoon figures in warm tones, labelled SP39.

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A photograph of downtown Vancouver with a sky filled by outlined cartoon clouds, a group of faceless travellers with suitcases in the foreground, and a yellow green cartoon tree, signed 2023.

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A photograph of the Stanley Park seawall in Vancouver with walkers and a jogger given blank cartoon heads, a grain terminal and ship across the water, mountains behind, and one outlined cloud, signed 2023.

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A photograph beneath the elevated F train in Brooklyn, with a faceless woman in a blue floral dress, a giant cartoon cloud with a coffee shop sign bursting from a storefront, and small creatures on the corner, signed 2023.

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A photograph of a midtown Manhattan avenue with cartoon clouds drawn down the sky, creatures peeking from a yellow brick tower's windows, a rainbow checkered pavement, and a bronze statue given a cartoon head, signed 2023.

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A photograph of an orange brick Brooklyn building with a red deli at street level, where the awning is blanked to pale blue, the window lintels and air conditioners are outlined in cream, and a grey hooded creature stands by a lamp post, signed 2023.

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A photograph of a midtown Manhattan street near Central Park overlaid with a tangle of thin rainbow scribble lines, where pedestrians and a pedicab rider have blank cartoon faces, signed 2023.

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A photograph of a Brooklyn corner near the 7th Avenue subway with a red brick building, where the trees, planters, a hydrant, bikes and a car are redrawn in flat sage and tan cartoon shapes, signed 2023.

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A photograph of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn with cartoon snowy mountains drawn over the skyline, a one eyed creature on a tower, outlined cars in traffic, and a faceless cyclist waiting at the crosswalk, signed 2023.

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A photograph of a red brick corner building with a deli on Cortelyou Road in Brooklyn, with the awnings, lamp post, traffic light, a car and a figure outlined as flat cartoon shapes under a bright blue sky, signed 2023.

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A photograph of a Flatbush street with a graffiti covered brick wall, where a dump truck, a worker, traffic lights, trees and shop signs have been redrawn as flat cartoon shapes, signed 2023.

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A photograph of the Kings Theatre marquee in Brooklyn behind a row of cars redrawn as rounded white cartoon shapes, with a lamp post and a tree outlined, signed 2023.

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A photograph of a Brooklyn corner at Church Avenue with a brick building, a big tree, a red fruit stand umbrella, and faceless pedestrians, where the lamp post, signs and a car are outlined like cartoons, signed 2023.

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A photograph of a Toronto street where a white truck, cars, traffic lights, banners and two sidewalk bins have been redrawn as flat cartoon shapes, with a faceless pedestrian, signed 2023.

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A photograph of a Toronto avenue with glass condo towers, where the traffic has been redrawn as rounded cartoon cars and the street lamps outlined, signed 2023.

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A photograph of the Empire State Building with a crane, where clouds, water towers, billboards and a kiosk have been outlined and filled with flat cartoon colour, above a plaza of yellow umbrellas, signed 2023.

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A nearly grey photograph of a Manhattan street with a blank sign, skyscrapers, cafe tables, and seated faceless figures in a pedestrian plaza, signed 2023.

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A bleached photograph of West 27th Street in Manhattan with cafe umbrellas and tall buildings, where the people have blank cartoon faces drawn over them and black scribbles cover the signs, signed 2023.

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A bleached photograph of the Flatiron Building wrapped in scaffolding, with a faceless woman walking toward the viewer, a row of blue bike share bikes and a red truck, signed 2023.

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A bleached photograph of a Manhattan street with bentwood cafe chairs, faceless diners at tables, and a tall dark billboard covered in white scribbled graffiti, signed 2023.

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A bleached photograph of two people walking away down a Manhattan street, one with a backpack carrying a longboard, their heads replaced by grey cartoon shapes, past the scaffolded Flatiron corner, signed 2023.

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