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Michael James Freedman The Distance From Here

The Distance From Here · Data print

East 83rd Street & Flatlands Avenue, Brooklyn

Unique giclée print · 17 × 17 inches · Framed · 1/1

Print details · $500.00
East 83rd Street & Flatlands Avenue, Brooklyn · Data print · 1/1
Framing mockup of East 83rd Street & Flatlands Avenue, Brooklyn: black frame, white mat, silver inner reveal.
Framing mockup

The work

About this work

A bicycle wheel fills the upper right, its fine spokes crossing blue and ochre fields. A silver grille tilts beneath it. Between the wheel’s circle and the grille’s hard diagonal, burgundy, black, and orange marks compress the encounter into a dense center.

A BMW driver went through a red light at East 83rd Street and Flatlands Avenue and fatally struck a 46-year-old cyclist. The composition brings the bicycle’s delicacy and the vehicle’s mass into sustained tension. Its unresolved red passage interrupts the order of both mechanical forms.

2022-06-21
East 83rd St & Flatlands Ave, Brooklyn

Crash record 4539610 · Read the source record ↗

Painting, data, selection

From four paintings to a few chosen works.

The series begins with Freedman’s four oil paintings: 258 Feet from Here, 1,104 Feet from Here, 1,924 Feet from Here, and 3,504 Feet from Here. Each responds to a fatal crash near littlefield in Brooklyn, establishing a language of interrupted gestures, partial forms, color, and open space.

For each data print, another documented crash acts on that painted language: direction, movement, and relationships between people and vehicles shape the composition. Freedman uses AI in the studio to develop these translations, then vets and selects the works. From roughly 1,200 images, only a few become physical prints. Each holds one event in view, asking for sustained attention to an individual loss within the city’s larger record.

The physical work

Color, surface, and an edition of one.

Printed edge-to-edge at 17 × 17 inches, each giclée uses Epson pigment inks on Hahnemühle German Etching paper. The textured matte surface carries brilliant color, subtle tonal shifts, and fine detail.

Presented in a black frame with a 13/16-inch face, a 2-inch white mat and a ¼-inch silver inner mat, under non-reflective acrylic. The mat covers ⅛ inch on each edge of the image.

Each image is a unique print, numbered 1/1. No second print of this specific image will be made.

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East 83rd Street & Flatlands Avenue, Brooklyn

17 × 17 inches · Hahnemühle German Etching · Edge-to-edge · Framed

Edition of one · 1/1

$500.00 USD

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