Mapping the Slope's Psycho-Geography'

There’s a map of Park Slope you’re not likely to find in a guidebook any time soon, even though it includes hyper-specific details like I got mugged here in 1988 after an Indigo Girls Concert and R&A Cycles: Bad Neighbors! These and hundreds of other descriptions (see photo on jump) of North Slope streets, businesses, buildings and people are part of Mical Moser’s This is Also a Map, a project that takes up most of a wall in the artist’s Gowanus studio. Moser and people who’ve visited her studio have affixed post-it notes onto satellite images of the Slope, with an emphasis on Fifth Avenue, where Moser’s lived for the past few years. (The project, which was unveiled during last weekend’s Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour, has also been part of Fifth Avenue itself—as readers may remember, one aspect of This is Also a Map involved soliciting opinions from passersby about what retail and art they’d like to see fill empty storefronts.) When art succeeds it tells us something very personal about our lives, says Moser. Someone called it the psycho-geography of the neighborhood. To check it out for yourself—and add in your own landmarks—email mical.moser at verizon dot net.
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