The Distance From Here · Data print
Unique giclée print · 17 × 17 inches · Unframed · 1/1
Print details · $350.00The work
A truck’s grille dominates the square. Its cab nearly reaches the upper edge; the wheels press into narrow fields of rust and ochre. Beneath the heavy bumper, a small cluster of red and pink marks disrupts the machinery’s repeated rectangles.
A truck driver fatally struck a 47-year-old man crossing Second Avenue at East 82nd Street. Disparity of scale governs the work. The eye identifies the truck immediately, then lingers over the unresolved marks beneath it. That imbalance gives visual form to the unequal relationship between a vehicle’s mass and human vulnerability.
2023-04-29
2nd Ave & East 82nd St, Manhattan
Crash record 4624351 · Read the source record ↗
Painting, data, selection
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
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.
Each image is a unique print, numbered 1/1. No second print of this specific image will be made.
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17 × 17 inches · Hahnemühle German Etching · Edge-to-edge · Unframed
Edition of one · 1/1
$350.00 USD
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