Saturday 1 May 2010

Today's Mayday find, today's Beltane find


Today's Mayday find, today's Beltane find, today's quarter day find on the street was the biggest found piece of canvas yet, quite a body of new work building up now and all on recycled canvas found on the street... This one is, or was now - was because the piece has been in my work space for a few hours and paint has grown on it - this one was one of those giant mass produced canvas art prints you can buy in places like Ikea, and now it is reborn and coming to live with real painted leaves growing in a Trillion green kind of way. By the end of next week it will be ready to be shown, graff marks will grow on it, leafhearts and shapes will unfold and drip on to it in some kind of paint-fuelled bloom, indeed if it was raining (for the first time in about a month here in London, no rain here since April 2nd I think I heard on the radio), if it wasn't for the heavy rain I'd be outside now with spray and paint-stink annoying sunbathing cats with the shaking of spray paint... And it turns out this one was being thrown out by a man who was once in that 70's vocal group, The King Singers, here's a YouTube of them in Boston. There's a story to each of these pieces of found recycled canvas... and now this one has green leafhearts on, come bac kthis time next week and see what else grew on the canvas...

Anyone intersted in sharing some gallery space in London NW10?, Kensal Green...

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