Verbal Description: People Who Stutter Create

Narrator: The billboard is mounted on the front of 95 Horatio Street, a building with yellow brickwork, located across the street from the Whitney Museum's entrance, facing the southernmost entrance to the High Line. Just above the billboard, there are two layers of six sizable windows, each separated by dark green metal. Beneath the billboard is a glass storefront entrance.

The following is an image description of the billboard created by the Whitney and the collective People Who Stutter Create, whose work is featured there for the 2024 Biennial:

Three lines of black text appear on a solid, light seafoam green background:

la tartamudez nos ofrece tiempo
口吃者創創創創創創創創創創創造時間
stuttering can create time

The text is in a sans serif typeface organized in three straight lines within the top half of the composition. The bottom half of the composition is empty, emphasising a sense of pauses, silences and expectations. The text is all lowercase and lacks punctuation, giving a casual and informal, almost text message-like feel. Each line of text represents a form of stuttered speech: blocks (pauses in speech), repetitions, and prolongations, respectively. The first line, in Spanish, translates literally to “Stuttering offers us     time.” The space between the word "ofrece" (which translates to "offers") and the word "tiempo" (which translates to "time") represents a block. The second line, in Chinese, translates literally to “People who stutter create time.” The first character in the Chinese word for “create” is repeated. In the third line, in English, the “s” in “stuttering” is stretched horizontally to represent prolonged sound.