deep water run: soundings from cheyenne avenue
Cheyenne Avenue is a major north-south thoroughfare in Tulsa, that runs from 65th Place North to South 21st Street. Through the Central Business District, or ‘downtown” the avenue is one way heading south until 13th Street when it becomes a divided road accepting two-way traffic. At 1st Street heading north it is a two way road until it ends at 65th Place North.
My time frame for gathering elements was late January through late April 2013, evoking a sense of the seasonal transition from winter into spring, this time frame further illustrates the cyclic idea of dormancy and reawakening. During this period I have photographed and recorded ambient sounds on Cheyenne Avenue. I have chosen nine sites along Cheyenne that will serve as memory repositories.
These sites, (lieux de memoire) or places of memory, were chosen based on a number of factors, including their historical relevance, locations where people converge or gather and in part based on the “method of loci” but I also wanted the final piece to represent the entire north/south span of the road from 65th Place North & Cheyenne to 21st and S. Cheyenne. The sites are:
18th & South Cheyenne - Stickball Park, Council Oak Tree
14th & South Cheyenne - Temple Israel, Tradition Hall
11th & South Cheyenne - Church Loop, intersects with Route 66
4th - 5th & South Cheyenne - Denver Bus Station, Mayo Parking Garage, Mayo Hotel,
North & South Cheyenne intersection at the tracks, entering old town, brick streets Fairview & North Cheyenne, the entrance to Brady Heights
Queen & North Cheyenne, John Starks Park, Cheyenne Park
28th Street N & Cheyenne - Robert Frost Elementary
46th Street N & Cheyenne - Tulsa Dream Center
My time frame for gathering elements was late January through late April 2013, evoking a sense of the seasonal transition from winter into spring, this time frame further illustrates the cyclic idea of dormancy and reawakening. During this period I have photographed and recorded ambient sounds on Cheyenne Avenue. I have chosen nine sites along Cheyenne that will serve as memory repositories.
These sites, (lieux de memoire) or places of memory, were chosen based on a number of factors, including their historical relevance, locations where people converge or gather and in part based on the “method of loci” but I also wanted the final piece to represent the entire north/south span of the road from 65th Place North & Cheyenne to 21st and S. Cheyenne. The sites are:
18th & South Cheyenne - Stickball Park, Council Oak Tree
14th & South Cheyenne - Temple Israel, Tradition Hall
11th & South Cheyenne - Church Loop, intersects with Route 66
4th - 5th & South Cheyenne - Denver Bus Station, Mayo Parking Garage, Mayo Hotel,
North & South Cheyenne intersection at the tracks, entering old town, brick streets Fairview & North Cheyenne, the entrance to Brady Heights
Queen & North Cheyenne, John Starks Park, Cheyenne Park
28th Street N & Cheyenne - Robert Frost Elementary
46th Street N & Cheyenne - Tulsa Dream Center
