These works are by Elaina Morgan, a friend, who recently moved from Bloomington to New York.
"isolationist tendencies"
"submarine port"
i own this one:"whats another word for pirates treasure?"
"ham tasty ham shapey"
if you are just sitting, staring, waiting,..
make some art.
pollock paint
or
picasso paint
or
just scribble
In Icepick (Gingko Press; hardcover, $29.95), Icelandic graphic designer Thordis Claessen surveys her homeland's vibrant street art and finds it invigorating and inspiring. Covering a wide range of themes and subject matters–from Icelandic icons to shagging sheep, from Sigur Rós' stencilism to trumpet-playing tortoises, from blunt demands for world peace to wishes for a dramatic death (rather than a slow, painful one from tuberculosis)–Icepick is at its most powerful and compelling when transcending graffiti's overt New York influence and finding currency in a particularly Scandinavian brand of freakish folk art. (Check Surkula's simultaneously ugly/beautiful swan-armed goblins and skeletal dark-eyed women with fish bones in their bellies for starters.) But for Claessen, a well-placed sticker or a simple chalk-drawn slogan (such as "It's cold and hard to live in the Icelandic nature alone") is equally worthy of documenting as a painstakingly rendered piece. Look at the streets in a different way, urges the designer. "Graffiti and street art is an uncensored art form that hits you on the street corner and generally has a short lifespan," says Claessen. "Sometimes it really speaks to us. Sometimes it even gives us a great laugh."
Text by David Hemingway
JinJonJim collective
on JUXTAPOZ
JinJonJim Art Collective
| Monday, 31 March 2008 | |
| "Crab Jackson along with two friends, Jeremy Kennedy and Shane Edge, recently formed the JinJonJim Art Collective. All three artists are based in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana (go Hoosiers!) and have been showing their work all over, both independently and collectively. |
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