Early days in the making of a monograph for “The Street Becomes”, I had an opportunity to publish it with Smithsonian Press. It seemed very fitting, since this body of work stemmed from my Artist Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution.

However, in essence, SP wanted a coffee table book, annotated with academic references. I envisioned an artist book, which reflected my aesthetic intervention and repurposing of source materials and which obeyed a personal criterion outside the purview of academic research.

So we parted ways.

Seven years later and a few evolutions forward from my initial book dummy, “The Street Becomes” was published by Meteoro Editions in Amsterdam.

Sometimes a good book hides a better book - and this publication was well worth the wait.

I am very pleased to announce that the first institution to acquire the book for its collection is the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.