Genji Monogatari
October 1, 2006
I found this piece of street art painted on a stripe of grey plastic tape and I pulled it off a black steel gate housing and put it on a cardboard and brought it home and restored the chipping enamel paint and I have been wanting someting by this guy since I saw his cloud sign on the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan bridge and he paints clouds and they sort of remind me of the clouds I used to throw into drawings in College after reading all 2,000 and whatever pages of The Tale of Genji which was illustrated with cloud filled pictures from some floating world , but his metal signs are glued onto the sign poles with industrial adhesive and therefore difficult and conspicuous to remove and I thought I might get arrested for vandalizing vandalization and this tape was a more or less moveable feast and how perfect to find it after yoko’s sky hole and this thing was about the size of a book mark any way, so it read like a bookmark in the street …. the heel is mine.
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October 2nd, 2006 at 1:28 am
right on the soul
October 4th, 2006 at 10:02 am
gorgeously evocative. the loving restoration work of the enamel paint on the tape, an those clouds that become a continuation of the little video, take your “vandalizing vandalization” to another place. you bring this work from the real sign poles to the virtual ones, adding your bit as other street artists do it on our walls. i would love to have this projected on one of my walls.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
I’m glad you realized that the little thing was a video. It was a nice way to make something on a Sunday after being out till four the previous night. Just set up the camera and read the paper.
June 24th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I Love it!