Did I ever mention I love the work of Swoon?
I took this in July in Chinatown in NYC.
And earlier in the year these:
One has to be very careful in NewYork if you are a streetartist because if you are caught it can be an imprisonable offence. So Swoon takes care not to be recognised:
(Thanks to Visual Resistance for the shot - taken in front of a OsGemeos painting - Swoon is the beautiful one in the middle)
I am so impressed with the nobility of artists who put their work on the street for everyone to see and there is something to be gained from it being ‘in the environment’ amongst people, seeing them interact with it and reacting to the weather and all that the environment brings … .
here is Swoon talking about her work:
” I studied classical painting, renaissance-style painting and
portraiture and then when I came to new york, and I no longer
felt connected to anything I had thought about art.
for at least two years, nothing made sense to me,
and everything I did felt aimless and destructive, and then things
finally came around.
so now when I feel like I’m doing things that make no sense,
to me, but I still feel deeply compelled to do them,
I take it as a good sign.’”
(From here)
Here is a really great interview with Swoon talking about the artefacts of her work.
Very cool.
Comment by Chris — September 4, 2006 @ 6:05 pm
I thought they were absolutely stunning when I first saw them on your Flickr stream. Magic!
Comment by on-the-run — September 4, 2006 @ 7:47 pm
Great. I’m looking at street art much more since I started reading your blog.
Comment by Sheila Webber — September 5, 2006 @ 2:21 pm