Tyree Guyton’s Rosa Parks Street Sign: Fragment from the Heidelberg Project Art Installation

Scuffs sweep across the entire rutty surface.The center is so twisted the edges have become sharp.The sign appears larger here than it wouldfixed to its original post watching the boulevard.This tells me something about the distance from skydown to curb and gutter. I’m learning what a boltcan do; the small bistre one, situatedbetween holes that were rivets once, holdsmetal to metal, sign to L-shaped bracket.Rosa Parks. Her name is clear on the leftbut obscured at the end where the final S is gouged.A white square and sketch of a bus hidesboulevard. A tour guide enters with a group,begins, “Many of us might not consider this art, but …”