Guerrilla Installation | October 21 – November 22, 2025
Stop ICE is a month-long guerrilla installation dispersed across Minneapolis transit spaces—bus shelters, buses, trains—tracing the unique geography of my daily movement through the city. Each piece consists of blue painter's tape marked with "Stop ICE" in black ink, lightly adhered with curling edges.
The installation culminates November 22, 2025, coinciding with Fall of Freedom movement and marking the beginning of our historic artistic resistance to authoritarianism.
The tape's deliberate impermanence creates a forced choice: remove it, press it down, or walk past. This micro-decision mirrors the larger civic question the work poses: when confronted with injustice in your daily landscape, what do you do?
The message is intentionally small—not a demand for sweeping action, but an invitation to any action. Keep our communities safe and whole. Do something. The curling edges make the piece tactile, physical, impossible to ignore without deciding.
The scattered distribution across my regular routes creates an installation whose overall shape is uniquely mine—a map of one person's Minneapolis, rendered visible through repeated small acts. The cumulative pattern is the signature; each individual piece is an invitation to participate.
The tape will survive or disappear based on the choices of strangers. Every interaction—removal, reinforcement, or studied indifference—becomes part of the work. By November 22, what remains will document a month of micro-choices across transit spaces where thousands of people confront a single question: what will you do?
Materials: Blue painter's tape, black marker
Sites: Minneapolis Metro Transit system (buses, trains, shelters)
Duration: October 21 – November 22, 2025
