DEVON DIKEOU . Four Seasons

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FOUR SEASONS, 2018

Black and White Cibachrome on Aluminum, Variable Dimensions

I just love this building--the Post Office, which was designed by Stanford White’s firm, McKim, Mead, and White, and has this incredible saying by Herodotus inscribed on the Greek Revival pediment. And I just love the mail. . .from Pony Express to email. Sillily enough the building, which has functioned as one of the largest Post Offices in the US if not the world, now exists in a time when actual mail is an outdated mode of communication and a is treated like a political football. . . All the while its physical building is being transitioned into a shopping mall à la Faneuil Hall in Boston. . . Four Seasons are photos of each word of the Postman’s Oath along the façade of NYC PO, taken four times over the course of one year at the same time of day on each of the seasonal equinoxes and solstices. . . As record of time and day, and ways that fade just like our institutions or seasons. There’s a nod to Félix González-Torres’ photographs of Teddy Roosevelt's quotes outside the entrance of the NYC Natural History Museum. 

Devon Dikeou is an artist originally from Denver who lives and practices in Austin, New York, and at the altitude of 5280. She is the founder, editor, and publisher of zingmagazine and co-founder, with her brother, of The Dikeou Collection in Denver.