Projecting Poetry in Chicago

Jenny Holzer's work is world renown. For more than 30 years her truisms or series of statements and aphorisms have been listed on street posters, telephone booths, and LED billboards.

This week she debuts the poetry of several other writers splashed across some of Chicago's most beautiful buildings, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Lyric Opera House, the Tribune Tower and the Merchandise Mart building.

On Halloween evening, when the temps were soaring in the 60's, hundreds of people gathered to read prophetic, albeit perplexing words scroll from the steps of the MCA upward along the pillars and out of sight. Her exhibits repeat themselves after 90 minutes so if you don't 'get it' the first time around, maybe it's deserving of another look.

My job is to search out hundreds of vantage points to document the show. I shoot high, low and wherever my fat camera lens fits - that would include climbing scaffolding, atop buildings across the street, from bridges, off the shore of the Chicago River and inside groups of on-lookers.