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January 26, 2004
A SWOON Lesson
I think of SWOON each time I'm in DUMBO, mainly because that's where I first saw her work. She is perhaps my favorite street artist out there. At Sean's birthday party I asked Dan if he knew anything about her pasting technique, which we mused about for a while. Then I found this interview with SWOON...and my questions have been answered.
"All I really do is cut a piece of paper, and then I roll it from the top down. And then I just roll it back out. I just have it as a very fragile, like shaking around, all cut-up piece of paper. And I use wallpaper paste, as you can see that’s why this stuff comes down so easily, because wallpaper paste is meant for indoors. I kind of like that, I like it that this stuff decays. I really love brick, and I wouldn’t ultimately want to destroy it. I only like to work with it temporarily." ~ SWOON
I can't wait until it gets warmer so I can go out hunting for some of her new work.
More street art, mostly by SWOON.
Posted by callalillie at January 26, 2004 8:53 AM | Visual Musings
great! it's nice to put a name with the art. i love swoon's work - it looks like it's been around forever.
i remember she had some stuff up on the brick building across from the clocktower, and it had decayed (in her words) beautifully. when they had an opening ceremony for the park, someone painted over it with brown paint! but i think there's some art back up. go swoon!
Posted by: jeannette at January 26, 2004 2:24 PM
I remember that, too. It made me really sad. Many of the pictures that I took were from that brick building, as well as another building on Water St near ABC Carpet.
Posted by: corie at January 26, 2004 3:18 PM
She (I think) did one in my neighborhood that is quite beautiful, but in a place few people probably see. It's on a plywood construction fence on the corner of Gates Ave and St. James. It's a large deer and some flowers, with scrawly text at the top. Top notch.
Posted by: Todd at January 26, 2004 8:55 PM
