This a limited-edition bumper sticker made from a cortina, which is a ten-word poem made with a camera while walking. The language for these poems was gathered from the cityscape (signs, graffiti, stickers, etc.) in photographs, one word at a time in order of discovery, so that the subsequent word is closer to the walk’s destination than the prior. In order to travel back into the landscape, the poems become bumper stickers.

There are a hundred different cortina bumper stickers, each printed in an edition of ten (plus one artist proof). All profit for the first five of each cortina’s edition will be donated to charitable organizations for refugees, migrants, and other vulnerable people.

* Cortina is the name of a Ford-model vehicle sold primarily in the United Kingdom from 1962 until 1982, the Cortina was named after Cortina d’Ampezzo, a town in the Italian Alps. In a number of Romance languages, cortina means curtain, and it also echoes or is related to other words that evoke enclosure, law, love, obscurity, cooking, and servitude, which all seem relevant to the vocation or curse of poetry.