Street Art

Recently, I came across a wonderful site called the Wooster Collective. The Collective is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.

Going forward, I'll periodically post about various art that catches my eye at the Collective.

"Bones in San Francisco" is one of the first works on the Collective site that resonated with me...

"I take photos of the homeless around the Tenderloin neighborhood and then do graphite drawings of them, these are then wheat pasted onto walls all over the place from Bogota to Tel Aviv and Palestine to London this one is in San Francisco.

I took this guys photo a couple of months before this piece and put it in the alley i often see him in. I did this piece during the day and coincidentally he saw me putting up the piece "ah man thats cool as shit".

About 15 minutes later I'm finishing the piece and 5 cops came upon me I spent the next 45 minutes explaining as to why not to arrest me. Piece stayed up in spite of the police, they went and asked the manager of the building if he wanted to press charges, " nah man i like that just clean up my sidewalk" so i did. The subjects name is " Bones " he plays the harmonica."