A public display of art and literacy

Posted: Thu 0:43, 22 Aug 2013

A public display of art and literacy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Mr. Young, who was born in Hong Kong and raised in Des Moines,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Iowa, has spent the past year stamping oversized poems into cement across the city - a public arts project he calls, with something less than poetic flourish, "Everyday Poems for City Sidewalk."
The poems are scattered as far as Lake Como to the north and the Mississippi River to the west. But a single Frogtown street plays host to four, and we arrived around dusk,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], when the shadows were fattening.
"It's a universal thing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Young said, peering down at a pile of russet autumn leaves. "You see wet concrete, and you want to do something to it. You want to write your initials. All we've done is sanction that desire." He pushed aside the leaves, revealing "Second Love," a six-line poem by St. Paul resident Carlee Tressel.
Young read it aloud in a lilting,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], appreciative cadence:
He kissed the girl
in the ballerina skirt,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
It was a long one -
like the kiss -
drenching her sneakers
in tulle.
I pointed out that someone had colored in the first few letters of the poem in crayon, and Young smiled. "It will be there for a good number of decades,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he said. "If you're a kid growing up around here, maybe you ride your bike by and notice it and say, 'Let's meet near the poem.' Or,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'Let's use the poem for second base.' It gets folded into your life."
He continued,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "Or maybe there's a word,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like tulle, which you don't know when you're in third grade. And then in eighth grade, you learn about the word,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and you understand the poem in a different way."
For two years, Young has served as the public artist in residence for St. Paul, a Midwestern city with a serious creative bent. Literature and art flourish here, supported by a network of independent bookstores, coffee shops,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and galleries.
One of Young's first goals,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], when he moved into his office in a dilapidated government building, was to bring that vibrancy to street level.
"The sidewalk in front of your house is public realm, it's city property, but you feel some sort of part ownership," he said. "I knew I wanted to ask people to make a conceptual leap and to think about their streets as a canvas, or,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in this case, as a book. And then I thought, 'Well, if it's a book,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who's going to get to write in it?' "
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