• June 9, 2005
  • Posted by Marc

Shit That’s Currently Inspiring Us… From Wooster Readers (Episode 2)

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From Mr.
Staples:


In Vancouver Canada, Repent Sinner has been putting
up stickers and leaving notes on the ground with his message for more than 20
years. His simple, passive approach is known to everyone in the city. There are
very few alleys without his stickers on a dumpster or post. Finding a Repent
Sinner on the ground is still one of the finer moments of my everyday life.
After all this time, still no one knows who he is. He is our enigma and is as
Vancouver as the rain and heroin.



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From Celso:

/>I’m inspired by indigenous art. I like the lines and delicate forms of these
seemingly simple works. The fact that they managed to survive hundreds of years
of the most destructive forces imaginable is impressive. I saw these at the
Rufino Tamayo museum in Oaxaca,Mexico and was blown away.

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/>From Tyrone:

Bates & Great
(see above)

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/>From Jenny (19 in Chicago):

/>I am fairly new in the whole graffiti scene, however i am extremely into it. I
recently took a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.. by myself for a week, and
decided to throw up my first bomb there, for a bit of practice, as well as,
spread my name internationally. A few days before I left, I came up with a new
tag name, which is iScaPe. creatively meaning, I Escape. I was escaping to
Mexico for a job interview, and the name just popped in my head before i
left…

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From Abstract88:

/>Going to the Brooklyn Bridge in the middle of the night in a rainstorm, it was
beautiful.

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From DeformIndustry:
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the one who writes Sto. Nino and incorporates big names around manila
and quezon city areas, saw them back in 96 and still doing them till now. of
who’s doing them is still unkown to many of us here… believed that writer
lives on the streets and has many surfaces to write on with anything in his
hand…

From Storker:
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Doing street art in Copacabana I picked a book on Artur Barrio who I’d
previously not known anything about and saw he’d been doing all these wild
istallations there decades back and I felt suddenly tied or at least charged by
the same spirit that the city had given him. Even a few days ago I saw the works
of Eltono and Nuria in Rio in these same spots and again the connection was
strong. So I guess my inspiration is the feeling I get from feeling connected
through art to other artists and the cities I’ve/they’ve manifested themselves
into and the belief that I’m part of a vector that has been going on long before
me and will go on long after I’m gone. And while Wooster is like a Big Bang
epicenter that is continually emitting new matter while pushing the envelope of
street art, its also much more than this, because it strengthens this connected
vibe in the most positive way.

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/>From ATTI:

What inspires me lately? The answer is inflatables,
especially the Nana inflatable and interiors of old busses and hotels.

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From Josh:

Travel always inspires me; travel is great
fuel for the creative soul. It rejuvenates my spirit and I always come back from
a trip wanting to write, paint, and make films. International travel is
particularly inspiring. It’s always wonderful to learn about a different culture
and meet new people. I enjoy seeing the popular tourist sites and museums, but
the most interesting and enlightening travel moments always seem to come when I
just wander and let myself get a bit lost in a foreign city (assuming I don’t
get lost in a dodgy area, though that can be interesting too). I’m also inspired
by art in its many forms, whether it’s paintings at the Met, music from David
Sanchez, or Pixar’s latest flick. The photo above is of both of those
inspirations-public art from my most recent travel experience. I took this
picture of the sculpture of a Viking ship during a recent trip to Reykjavik.
It’s just too bad I have to come back to my day job to pay for these trips.
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From Sukee:


my muse
of late is the river Usk or by its ancient name river isca it can be seen from
my window where I live which is in Newport Gwent Wales. I created a project
inspired by it I collect huge amounts of driftwood from the banks suspended it
from a studio ceiling and then had a full body cast of my body taken and put my
reflected self under the driftwood and placed the cast back down by the river
bank where I had taken the wood from.

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From NEAK:


/>I attended a bronze casting workshop in Northern Scotland and I was amazed and
inspired by the standing stones created by the Picts 1500 years ago, that are
all over the area. They incorporate images that were important to the pictish
culture and society and all that is known about these people has been
interpreted from these beautiful story boards. On this stone is a salmon and a
mystical beast called a kelti that is popular in scottish mythology.

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/>From IOH:

hi i have work
and think off goats the last year, me and my daughter have been visit some goats
in a park near uss. i love their eyes. i send you a goat i painted last year for
a show in gothenburg.