CRASHCUBE: Collision 4581458
A public crash record, folded into a small monument you assemble yourself.
This CRASHCUBE is a flat-pack CrashCount Factory paper object made from collision 4581458: Union Street at Plaza Street West, Brooklyn, November 8, 2022, 5:35 AM ET. The record is simple and not simple: a BMW driver failed to yield and struck a man riding a bike.
Inside the sleeve are six illustrated modules, instructions, and a hidden five-line poem. Fold them together and the record becomes a 3-inch cube: image outside, poem inside, evidence held in the hand.
The cube faces are built from loose ink-and-watercolor crash studies: smoky blacks, signal reds, street-light yellows, and thin blue lines that turn the record into a small rotating city fragment.
Part of the solution: A portion of every sale supports safer streets in New York City.
Edition
- Collision ID: 4581458
- Location: Union Street at Plaza Street West, Brooklyn
- Edition / run: 25 numbered copies
Object
- Flat-pack folded-paper cube kit in a 5.5 by 5.5 inch sleeve
- Finished cube is 3 inches tall
- Six illustrated modules, assembly instructions, and a poem inside
- Requires cutting, folding, and tucking the modules together
Product images are factory renders of this edition. Finished hand-cut and hand-folded cubes may show small paper variations.
Trace
A print with a past
- Format
- CRASHCUBE
- Source
- NYC public collision record
- Artist review
- Made through Michael James Freedman's drawing system and approved before release.
- Edition
- Produced in a small run, with source record and finished work kept together.