Jamison Chas Banks

Banks has created a seemingly camouflaged tire advertisement that is fixed to the exterior of the Gas Station Museum in Milan. This advertisement echoes the theme of Flow by acknowledging the advertising sign/billboard history of Route 66, interconnected economic systems, and the notion that the town of Grants existed in aesthetic cooperation with many other communities along the Route. The obvious indication is that tires or the wheel allow mobility and flow. The Sign Language tires emulate indigenous patterns and repetitious motifs. With the generic tribal aesthetic of Grants ever present, the notion of "Indian Sign Language" is an underlying current for this work.