Keep It Simple Stupid

I spent the other day exploring and painting in an abandoned mansion near Barcelona. In its heyday the estate was a decadent beach front palace. Today it has been left to complete ruins and more than a few of us have come through to leave our mark. While adding to the decay I decided to paint on a mirrored closet with a phrase to reflect on. Especially for those who once lived here. Keep It Simple Stupid

Screw, Nails and Good Times

YES / NO / MAYBE / SO

YES / NO / MAYBE / SO
Spraypaint on Found objects
200 x 200 cm each
Painted during the Swab Art Fair in Barcelona
Thanks to Tina & Etika Projects

texture is in our nature

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Barcelona ABC’s

Keep your eyes open for 26 new mirrors installed on the streets around Barcelona, one with each letter of the alphabet.

Just as graffiti fills in the negative, forgotten, and ignored spaces of our cities I hand painted in the negative space of the letters and left the city to fill in the rest.

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An explanation of the – Reflect On – project

Mirrors are more than just something to see yourself in.
As a child I always thought they were actually windows into another world, one that was so familiar yet completely opposite.

The Reflect On project speaks via these windows. They are visual messages to us from our other selves and a reflection of the world we inhabit.

The photos of these paintings are simply snapshots of paintings that are constantly moving and changing.

When you look into a mirror you are the only subject that it speaks to and about in that moment. When you move on it is no longer yours.

In the public space these mirrors are everyone’s and they are about everyone.

This project has been ongoing since 2006 and the mirrors have shown their faces (and yours) in Bucharest, Istanbul, Barcelona, NYC, and Mexico City.

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Find the cracks in the system

and exploit them.

luck?

People say broken mirrors bring 7 years bad luck. I say…

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This Neighborhood’s Gone to Shit

found in the Born next to a mirror of mine