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HER YOUNG LIFE THEY RECKONED AT ZERO,

THOSE WARLOVING CAPTAINS.

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We Drenched the City With Our Names, 2011, Henry Chalfant, ink jets prints on synthetic adhesive paper

A good way of getting attention, it turns out, is writing on a train. If you paint your name on a moving steel ticker tape used by three and a half million people a day, many of them will sit up and take notice. Turning deferred-maintenance wrecks into brilliant canvases helps a person overcome the faceless anonymity of contemporary urban life. In the immortal words of the Sugarhill Gang, “Scream it out and say I am somebody, and now you know you’re hot.”