From flux: These photos represent a selection of
about 20 cardboard sticker/drawing pieces i put up over the course of the summer
in the city of guelph, canada (just west of toronto).  i used double-sided tape
to affix them to light posts, mailboxes and street signs. some fell down between
the time i put them up and when i came back to take photos, but often people had
put them back up or propped them up against the light post, which i felt was
pretty decent of them…

i wanted to use cardboard for a number of
reasons: 1) it’s free 2) i love the aesthetic dimension of the texture and
colour, as well as its rigid nature and portability (i wanted people to have
free art that they could take away with them and re-enjoy in their homes) 3)
there’s something cool about turning garbage to art and having it breathe a
little love into the urban environment.

my work is strongly
influenced by the situationist movement of the late 60s and the idea of
psychogeography (random urban wanderings and encounters).  i’d like to think of
my art as kind of an accessory to urban movement; a sort of random encounter
with a new source of inquiry.  whether you like it or not is kind of beside the
point, it’s more about making you stop and think for a second.  kind of like
“where did this come from?, who made it?, why’d they make it?”, i think that is
really the motivation and essence of street art.  it’s an ideological blip on
the otherwise static cultural landscape of the (post)modern city.

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