Zen And The Art Of Municipal Parking
“[It’s] a reflection on a social situation, the human experience of giving and receiving parking tickets. I started this process by wondering what would happen in a world where I received them with a set of graceful postures: a clean bend at the waist, a gentle lift of the windshield wiper . . . I’m going to get the ticket either way, my only choice really is how I’m going to receive it.”
-Cambridge, MA, artist-in-residence Daniel Peltz explains the philosophy behind the city’s new parking violations procedures, which include tickets with yoga poses on the envelopes, and “plush, stuffed ‘soft-boots’ to give the ultimate parking penalty a warmer, fuzzier feel.”