“For this piece I designated a 4 square mile area, seven miles long by one-half mile wide, along the east side of Bruce R. Watkins Drive, in which to collect data. My demographic of choice is the discarded tire. The area is demarcated in one-half mile circles, each correlating to a tire on the gallery floor. For every half-mile area, I drove around and counted all of the discarded tires on the street and abandoned lots. I did not consider tires used as planters as discarded because they were being put to a new use. I did, however, count any tires used as weights for portable basketball goals, holding that their use is temporary and arbitrary. Then, for every ten tires that I counted in an area I brought one to the gallery and placed it in a vertical stack corresponding to its circle on the map. So, I have essentially presented here a three dimensional bar graph of the discarded tires in this area, to easier communicate the undeniable presence of discarded tires in our community. At the conclusion of this exhibition I will be delivering these tires to Tiro-Block, a company that collects tires and contains them in blocks of cement so they are no longer a fire hazard or a breeding ground for potentially disease carrying mosquitoes. If you would like to assist in the cleaning up of our neighborhoods, donations will be gladly accepted against the south wall on the opposite end of the line of tires.”

— Wall Label statement for original exhibition 2003