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October 31, 2004
Dust Car Art From RABIA
We loved this email so much.... Here it is in it's entirety...."yo! hi my name is Arbel and i'm an artist and illustrator from Israel and i live in Costa Rica right now, but... i'm not gonna write about me. i want to write about my brother. he loves your website and checks it daily but he's a bit shy, so i've decided to step in and send you pictures i took from his latest street project.
my brother, RABIA, is an artist too. he works as a professional animator and illustrator but he is also a long time street artist. he began doing graffitty art in his teens and did some pieces in Israel and in Amsterdam. a couple of years ago he stoped doing graffity but the concept of street art already was flowing in his vains.
his latest pieces involves dust, or to be exact - dusty cars.
in israel during the summer we get a lot of dust and if you dont move your car... well, it gets dusty. the cars involved in his latest street project haven't been moved in months, some of them in years. these works are very noticeable to people walking on the street and involve humor and creativity -
they are as streetart as any but they only last until the first rain ;)
so...let's continue to the work itself:
this was the first car he did just outside of his home:
going around by foot or on his skateboard he discovered more dusty cars. he came to me one night and said: "get up! we are going to find some dusty cars!"
that night, he did three or four pieces
here are some of them:
gonig back home, Aviv noticed a car filled with bird's shit on the front window. he couldn't stop himself and he did this:
the next evening, he found a really cool old car. this car is a collector's item (even the liesence plate says so..) you would have think that its' owner will take better care of it...
a couple of days later, we were parking our car and went out when my brother discovered yet another car. standing aside this car he was thinking what to do with it when he noticed a lot of cats' foot prints on the dust. the light bulb lit above his head and he did this one:
the last one i saw (before going back to Costa Rica) was in Tel Aviv. this car was so dusty and sat there for so long that the dust became part of the car and was really hard to manipulate.
this is what came out of it:
so... that's it.
RESPECT TO DA MAX!
ONE LOVE!
Arbel
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