Luis Flores
Sam Collins
Luis Flores is an artist and educator who has lived in Baltimore since 1978. A native New Yorker, he has spent more three
decades in education and currently teaches design, mixed media, and sculpture at the Baltimore School for the Arts. Luis
mixed-media works and installations have been exhibited in museums and alternative spaces throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
Samuel Gerald Collins teaches cultural anthropology at Towson University. He researches globalization and information society
in the United States and South Korea and has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Busan
and Seoul in Korea.
photo by La Kaye Mbah
The items on this page form part of a game that has no rules
- By examining this game carefully, you have become a player
- You may play alone, with a partner or group
- Play as long as you like, then pass the page along. Or, better yet, place a dozen found items in a small box with your instructions
- Give the game to a friend or a stranger, or leave it in a place where someone will find it at a later date
- One dozen boxes are already in circulation around our city.
Open this box. It's nothing to be alarmed about-nothing dangerous, nothing valuable. Not a reliquary, not a treasure chest. Just a box filled with residues and potentialities.
We are bombarded by distractions demanding our attention, day and night: advertising billboards, television, telemarketing, radio, RSS feeds, text messages, bumper stickers. All of these entities around us-corporations, governments, friends, and acquaintances-are going to great lengths to tell us something. We don't always notice-and more than that, we can't always notice-this excess of messages.
