Wheat Paste
Monday, February 14th, 2011
“Wheat Paste is Gay” Ah, this wall has seen better days. No one has been bold enough to paste a major work on this wall since Swoon. Pasted paper is scraped off or sprayed over quickly. But I have seen some fun stuff last for a few weeks. I keep telling myself that I should update the Swoon mural video and show what has happened to this wall since then. I photograph here every time I go shopping, so I have a lot of material to work with. But the video needs a more interesting ending. I don’t think this is it. Filigrees of paper, cut by Swoon persist if you look closely enough.
Sorry for the lo-res nature of this 2007 video. I need to give it an upgrade to HD.
this wall has gone downhill…
Yes, it is much neglected. I see a fun piece up on it now and then, but they are often scraped off quickly. No one has dared to put a major work up since Swoon and the whole splasher thing.
i think a lot of artists don’t realize they’re doing their work a disservice in pasting in spots such as these, that is, spots that are well past their prime.
individual work doesn’t stand out, there certainly isn’t any dialogue between the pieces – what’s the point in pasting here other than getting up on a known spot?
[rant over.]
Jeez, Luna, this is the only wall left in my neighborhood that hasn’t been buffed. Right now is a perfect opportunity for a giant Gaia or something, nothing much here would be missed, and I bet the Swoon remnants would still show.
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