Finding parking meters

What I Did:
2 hours walking around downtown taking pictures of structures
2 hours researching graffiti artists
5 hours drawing on pictures
1 hour thinking how to draw on/attach things to the parking meters and other structures

What I Accomplished/Discovered/Encountered:

I realized that sticking to smaller structures other than buildings would probably be a good idea when I thought about it realistically. Walking around downtown Ann Arbor, I found a lot of items around that had sort of facial structures, but nothing got my attention more than the parking meters. It was so apparent that they had characteristics of a head and there were so many of them around. I also like the fact that parking meters are kind of becoming extinct due to the new appearance of E Park meters. It says a lot about the change of the times: that everything analog is being replaced by digital things. Due to the large number of parking meters that are still around, I knew I could make a bunch of different faces on them and make sort of a community of parking meters.

When drew on the pictures of the parking meters, I realized that I like the simplest ones the best, especially the one with the fangs and the one with the open mouth and teeth. Those are the ones that I integrated the most on the meter. Right now, my idea is to create the add-ons (the mouth, eyes, teeth, etc) previously and then sticking them on to the meter quickly so as not to get caught. My plan is to cut teeth, and possibly ears, out of metal, paint them, and then super glue them on to the meter. With the mouth and eyes, I would like to create stickers that I can stick on them. I also thought that steel wool could be a great way to make the meter look like it has hair.

During my critique today, it was suggested that I dive deeper into the history of parking meters and also that I should explore many different items in a similar space. I really liked the mailbox that I drew on as well, so I am not opposed to humanizing other objects than parking meters. I just think that parking meters will be the best objects for me to humanize. I am thinking that they will be my main object that I will work on.

What I Think I Should Do Next:
I will look around downtown more to see if there are more objects for me to humanize. I will look up the history of parking meters and maybe get some more ideas with what I could do with the faces on them. I will also try to experiment with painting on metal, making stickers, and seeing how well super glue can hold metal pieces together.