Ghost Stoops

Light art installation, Public Art

/ 2020
Ghost Stoops public art installation of glowing doorways and front stoops installed on the site of missing, demolished rowhouses in Baltimore

Ghost Stoops
2020
Steel, LED neon lighting, stone steps


Baltimore’s city grid is interrupted with thousands of empty lots that once contained rowhouses, homes to generations of residents, rich and poor alike, who once congregated on the vanished front stoops. Like missing teeth the sites of these demolished buildings are a palpable absence in the neighborhood fabric.

Ghost Stoops proposes to revivify and memorialize these missing homes and memories. Marble steps, framed by glowing outlines recall the houses that once stood at these sites.

Ghost Stoops public art installation of glowing doorways and front stoops installed on the site of missing, demolished rowhouses in Baltimore
Pencil sketch of the Ghost Stoops public art installation
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