For my public art intervention I chose to work with a tool I am incredibly comfortable with, my Yashica-G camera. It always amazes me how the genre of wheat pasting street art is a field completely dominated by graphic designers and graffiti artists, while photography has for the most part been excluded from the walls of streets. Photographs may be included in street art, but typically don't exist in public as they would in a gallery setting. What I was interested in accomplishing through this project was a fine art approach to photography presented in a street context, a merging of work I have shown in galleries and a less restrictive public arena.
The camera I use is a twin-lens reflex that exposes 120 film.
The film I am using is Velvia Fujichrome. It's a slide film that holds all the colors directly on the positive.
This is the finished result that otherwise would be framed and in a gallery setting.
Mixing some wheat paste with only three secret ingredients.
And pasted it right onto a trashcan that hundreds of students view daily.
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