Noémie Jennifer artistically decorated utility box - Wayland Square - Providence, Rhode Island - Artistically Decorated Utility Boxes on Waymarking.com

To the untrained eye, the black lines and marks on a white background merely resemble the ZenTangle craze of the early 2000's, of organic forms filled with assorted repeating patterns. However, Noémie Jennifer, the French-American artist who painted this utility box on the south side of Angell Street in the Wayland Square neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island, provides a much deeper insight to her work:

My designs were adapted from an earlier series of drawings entitled Indexed where each drawing features an index decoding the swaths of marks within the image … I was interested in pairing these organic forms with elements (repetitive mark-making, legend annotation) that brings mechanization to the process and also reframe the image as a potential imaginary map … Working at this large-three-dimensional scale yielded inspiring results that are vastly different than the finely detailed drawings that informed the designs.

The utility box is one of three commissioned by the City of Providence for Jennifer to decorate. It is at the heart of Wayland Square east of Angell Street's intersection with Wayland Avenue. The painting wanders over each side and the top of the cabinet. Per the City of Providence's Department of Art, Culture + Tourism - The Art Transformer Project guidelines, "Providence - The Creative Capital" appears in hand lettering on the east face. A nine-segmented square filled with unique patters is below the text. Beneath that is the artist's web address.

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Artist web site: Noémie Jennifer
Quote: "Around New England: Transformers Transformed", boston.com, September 27, 2013