Fixing the streets is a project that started in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn NY. The project employs custom cut marble tile to fill in and repair damaged sections of streets and sidewalks.

Using a direct action approach, this [unauthorized] act becomes a gesture of ownership through imposed design intervention. The imposition brings up questions of ownership of public space and the limits of government. Employing a vernacular aesthetic recalling Italian Immigrants from the middle 1900's;absent of a before and after shot, it's often unclear whether the white stone is a previous layer emerging from below or the addition of yet another layer.

This ultimately questionable improvement to safety and efficiency asks whether this filling in of the gaps is better, or if this is a new form of urban graffiti.