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The profuse noises deafen the mind And kill the soul. My heart cries for solitude From the amassing moments That deadens the spirit within. These deepened eyes are blackened Through the years of visual desolation That captures every crevice. I wait for my death to be finally free Of the visual torment That I might finally sleep in silence. Take me Creator, to see your face once again My will is done. ~ paper art by swoon~ an alley in OVR ~poem by me...
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Rlw says:
It looks like David Carradine...
Slakejustice says:
Who's swoon?
Woodstock says:
Swoon is a street artist from New York City who specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures. Swoon studied painting at the Pratt Institute iin Brooklyn and started doing street art around 1999. Swoon does not release her real name to the public to avoid prosecution for the crime of "vandalism" associated with street art. Swoon's worlds are often populated by realistically rendered cut-out street people, often her friends and family. Riding bikes, talking on a stoop, going grocery shopping - these people traverse a cityscape of her own unique invention. Bridges, fire escapes, water towers and street signs create crisscrossing shadows and spaces through which her figures move. Inspired by both art historical and folk sources, ranging from German Expressionist wood block prints to Indonesian shadow puppets, Swoon uses cut paper to play with positive and negative space in a conceptually driven exploration of the experience of the streets. Swoon has been covering the streets of New York with her signature cutouts for over six years. Often found in states of decay, her wheat-pasted cut outs “collaborate” with the street to create a time-based public artwork. In conjunction with the art collectives Justseeds and Toyshop, Swwon has executed projects ranging from billboard alterations and poster campaigns, to street parties and sculptural installations. Her recent work has focused on creating peepholes throughout the city in subtle places where, once discovered, the viewer can glimpse a hidden dream world through the unassuming aperture. Swoon's exhibitions and workshops in the United States and Europe have included collaborations with the art collectives, Glowlab, Black Label, Change Agent, the Madagascar Institute and the Barnstormers. Her work was included in P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s Greater New York 2005, and appeared in Deitch Projects’ special design district space art Art Basel Miami 2005 and at MOMA and the Brooklyn Museum in 2006. I believe she came here in Cincy 2004-05, not too much remains now from decay...
Woodstock says:
who's louie the love panda?
Slakejustice says:
A good friend!
Slakejustice says:
Thanks for the Swoon update! She's super talented!
Slakejustice says:
I'm off to Vulcan. Hang out with Spock.
Dead Betty says:
And then there's that.
Dead Betty says:
This one's my favorite because it kind of spells Betty.
Woodstock says:
ahhhhh, we love you! louie too, he loves your leg!!
Dead Betty says:
I think he blatzed on it.
Woodstock says:
this photo inspired me to write this poem,, with sensory disabilities on such a sharp rise in children,, me too... it sometimes triggers seizures in me... I worte a paper on this subject about the ever increasing mmmm, sensory overload in society and how it even effects children in the womb, and got very positive feedback from doctors...