THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Hammons stood in the cold on the south-east corner of Cooper Square and Astor Place, at the foot of Cooper Union, positioned among the unemployed, the homeless and the generally down-on-their-luck selling the likes of used books, clothing and cassette tapes. The artist presented his differently sized snowballs in neat, graduated rows on a colourful, folded North African rug[.] They were then sold off individually, each priced at one dollar, as the artist himself insists.

Filipovic/Hammons