Description
Depending on the neighborhood, extra security measures might adorn both residences and businesses alike—from steel bars and building buzzers to buttress apartment windows and entrances, to metal security shutters to barricade storefronts outside business hours. While neighborhood locksmiths satisfy residential reentry needs, however, businesses use a more specialized service: emergency rolling gate repair.
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ABOVE: A selection of rolling gate repair stickers (Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn, NY).
Walking down a commercially dense street in New York City, one can spot dozens of stickers advertising this service, all following the same rubric. Twenty-four-hour service, seven days a week. Exclusively contacted by phone. The ubiquity of these miniature notices has informed appropriation by sticker-friendly street artists.
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ABOVE: Rolling gate-inspired stickers by graffiti artists Trace, Neko, Rebah.
It’s unlikely that digital displays will supplant these adhesive advertisements, but their inherent ephemerality renders them invisible after months, if not weeks: coated in spray paint, plastered over by competitors, or simply ruined by the elements. This zine is a snapshot of silkscreened vinyl and inkjet-printed paper before they’re lost to time.
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