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This public art piece was commissioned by the Three Rivers Arts Festival. Market
Square is a section of downtown Pittsburgh where many people meet everyday. The
city plans on “cleaning it up” but hasn’t made these plans public yet. I spent time
sitting in the Square and listening to conversations. I was surprised by how many
people were concerned about what might happen to this place and how poetic some
of their words were. Excerpts from these conversations were spelled out in two-foot
squares—each one with a letter applied to it—near where the actual words were
spoken. A different excerpt was displayed every other day of the two-week Festival.