Who was here first?

Sampling the City

Instructor: Sean Donahue/ Ben Hooker

 This experiment allows you to be a detector who finds mysterious evidence of human existence in the city. I choose this one spot in my neighborhood where a huge stain of paint colors  is all mixed up together and randomly spreaded on a side walk. On the spot, I start doing some silly observation to find out which color was spilt before which color. From analyzing that, I hope to find out who brought which colors and why to the space. 

Satelite view of the area- By comparing the paint spot to the huge apartment building which is shown to be still under construction, it can be assumed that the spot has been there at least since the building wasn't completed which is approximatley in 2005.

 

 

 

 

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    I search areas and objects painted over and over that have layers of different colors and time.
     
 

 Closed-up observation

 Divided sections for more efficient inspection

 

 

 

 

Analyzing colors and their orders of layers

 

 Finding the order of color layers in each section


  

 

Numbering the assumption of the orders of layers 

 

 

Conclusion: According to this silly inspection and based on personal guesses above, there is at least one fact revealed about which color was dropped the latest,  and that is BLACK.