The best way to see Adam Brooks’s most enduring piece of artwork—a list of 69 names that includes Martin Luther King Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Rush Limbaugh—is briefly and frequently, through the windows of an el train. “You ascertain that there’s some kind of connection,” Brooks says of the banner mounted on the side of 325 W. Huron. “There’s no title on the work, so you have to make the association of names.”
“It’s a fundamental question,” he says, “how we perceive ourselves living this so-called free life and what that means. There are so many ways freedom can be interpreted. It’s an issue that will not go away really.”
