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My DEVANDALIZING series repurposes and re-contextualizes stickers, graffiti tags, signaling tape, and similar fragments "vandalizing" the streets of New York and of other cities around the world.
For over 10 years now, I have been collecting - "devandalizing" - these artifacts of the urban environment as the source material for my collages and paintings on canvas and other materials.
Applied in a chaotic, semi-random, or determined way, these artworks reflect and feedback on the evolving phenomenon of urban visual expression.
The stickers were collected from the streets of cities such as Detroit, Las Vegas, Québec, Montréal, Palermo, Catania, Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan, Havana, and, of course, Berlin and New York. These are the original stickers, the "real thing,” not reproductions.
For over 10 years now, I have been collecting - "devandalizing" - these artifacts of the urban environment as the source material for my collages and paintings on canvas and other materials.
Applied in a chaotic, semi-random, or determined way, these artworks reflect and feedback on the evolving phenomenon of urban visual expression.
The stickers were collected from the streets of cities such as Detroit, Las Vegas, Québec, Montréal, Palermo, Catania, Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan, Havana, and, of course, Berlin and New York. These are the original stickers, the "real thing,” not reproductions.
A BY-PRODUCT is
...an incidental or secondary product made in the manufacture or synthesis of something else.
...a secondary result, unintended but inevitably produced in doing or producing something else.
Wikipedia: "...A by-product is a secondary product derived from a manufacturing process or chemical reaction. It is not the primary product or service being produced."
...an incidental or secondary product made in the manufacture or synthesis of something else.
...a secondary result, unintended but inevitably produced in doing or producing something else.
Wikipedia: "...A by-product is a secondary product derived from a manufacturing process or chemical reaction. It is not the primary product or service being produced."
