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Evolving Relationship with the Bike
Standing at the corner of Chateau Road and Roxboro Road felt somewhat eerie. I found myself feeling a little uncomfortable at first at...
A Fear-Inducing Environment
An intersection is never a safe place to stand. But the one of Roxboro and Chateau Road has something special to it. Structures are often...
The Intersection
They say your life is supposed to flash before your eyes when you have a near death experience. Mine didn’t. Instead, during the couple...
Bodies vs. Cars
What’re peoples bodies relationships to cars? What about when people are on bikes? How does that change? “When you’re inside a car, it is...
Ghost Bike, the Environment and Passing Time
The ghost bike on Roxboro has a way of creeping up on a viewer. This bike is provocative for its ability to hide so easily within its...
Litter
Scattered around the Roxboro Ghost bike – one, five, ten, fifty feet away – are pieces of litter. Trash. These are discarded pieces of...
How do we define Litter?
Litter: trash, such as paper, cans, and bottles, that is left lying in an open or public place. While some of the objects surrounding the...
Living vs. Non-Living
Death makes a place where there was none. Tony Turner’s ghost bike is a constant reminder of death. The white paint on the bike that...
Memorial
While ghost bikes are memorials, they go beyond the simple representation of the mourned bodies of cyclists. The physical presence of...
Beyond the Memorial, Protesting Freedom
What else does this ghost bike represent beyond the memorial? According to the history of white bikes, it can represent a sense of...
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