On / Of
01/02/2011
Canvas paintings can be moved from gallery to gallery but street art is inseparable from its location. It can derive additional resonance and meaning from its spatial context.
I have put posters on a building of that building.
Peeps
Godzilla
Abduction
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Prizm
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Tunnel
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The security camera in the foreground of this photo has some nice snaps of my hollywood good looks.
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Storm
Cake Lady
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On/Of 2
Debra Chant, a photographer, emailed me about identifying an historical street artwork. In correspondence I soon learnt she had walked the laneways of Melbourne in 2005, photographing interesting sites. I suggested we turn the photos into posters and put them up at the location in 2012, with the caption "Where you're standing, <date> 2005".
I hope these posters offer passers by the opportunity to reflect on the growth and mutability of our city.
St Jerome's and Rancho Notorious, 2 counter cultural institutions, are now a large hole in the ground as part of the development for a new shopping centre.
The iconic checkerboard window tagging of an entire building by 70k on Lt Bourke st. Now a high end corporate office tower.
