The Art Farmer project is the work of Jon Kane.
It is an inverse graffiti project.
Phase one of the project involved mounting clean, white and orange sheets of steel on the exterior of public walls in the New York City metro area. The sheets measured two feet square and when mounted were signed and dated by the artist. Special mounting was used to insure that the pieces could not be removed.
These ‘clean spots’ on otherwise graffiti covered walls were left in place for one year. Through the random confluence of anonymous graffiti writers and the effects of weather the ‘signs’ went through a transformation from pristine blank to a graphic cacophony of writings, flyer postings and the effects of natural decay. Photos were taken along the way documenting the transformation.
One calendar year after the initial ‘planting’ the pieces were ‘harvested’ as finished works of art.
The collaboration between anonymous people, and the variations of decay brought on by time reveal a surprising array of graphic worlds.
The project aims to capture whole, without manipulation, the chaos inherent in the apparently warring forces of various anonymous vandals and the parallel effects of decay and time to reveal beauty.
The results vary from dense collages to clean details of larger pieces painted without regard for the signs. One piece is the result of a violently hammer attack leaving it bent and pock marked.
Phase two of the project will involve mounting pieces in countries around he world starting with the cities of Buenos Aires in Spring 2008.
It is an inverse graffiti project.
Phase one of the project involved mounting clean, white and orange sheets of steel on the exterior of public walls in the New York City metro area. The sheets measured two feet square and when mounted were signed and dated by the artist. Special mounting was used to insure that the pieces could not be removed.
These ‘clean spots’ on otherwise graffiti covered walls were left in place for one year. Through the random confluence of anonymous graffiti writers and the effects of weather the ‘signs’ went through a transformation from pristine blank to a graphic cacophony of writings, flyer postings and the effects of natural decay. Photos were taken along the way documenting the transformation.
One calendar year after the initial ‘planting’ the pieces were ‘harvested’ as finished works of art.
The collaboration between anonymous people, and the variations of decay brought on by time reveal a surprising array of graphic worlds.
The project aims to capture whole, without manipulation, the chaos inherent in the apparently warring forces of various anonymous vandals and the parallel effects of decay and time to reveal beauty.
The results vary from dense collages to clean details of larger pieces painted without regard for the signs. One piece is the result of a violently hammer attack leaving it bent and pock marked.
Phase two of the project will involve mounting pieces in countries around he world starting with the cities of Buenos Aires in Spring 2008.
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I get it!
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