BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
This week BSA is in an unusual location in Colombia by invitation to see a new initiative with Street Artists in an abandoned distillery now being brought back to life with their imaginations and penchant for transformation. Come along with us for a few days to see what we discover.
As we are chronicling the movement of the Street Art story into new spaces such as this hybrid venue that transforms an aged factory into a unique ex-urban gallery, it occurs to us that the revolution of this street culture movement has always been in its ability to adapt.
Stinkfish. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
After last nights’ tumultuous rains that turned much of the dusty ground into thick chocolate mud we walked amongst these hulking steel giants of manufacturing again, seeing everyone and everything with new eyes.
Climbing up the rusted rickety staircases and rotting corrugated floor panels and peering out upon painters and vandals alike as they plot their next proposition, you remain alert for unscripted turns in the plot.
Ben Eine with Connor. Colombia. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Invariably a pause, an ellipse, a stolen moment may reveal something more about the artist and their passage into the creative ether. With a documentarian sense, you’ll want to capture it before it blinks away.
When the creative spirit is fluid in environments such as these, it is possibly impossible to articulate the complex set of actions, reactions, strategic calculations, synchronous movements, awkward missteps, punk pirouettes, and the occasional virtuosic executions that can take place.
Filmmaker Collin Day. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Once you accept that the process of creativity for Street Artists and those who enable them is rather full of magic, you have equipped yourself to see that magic wherever you look. It happens as quickly as the flight of the short-tailed bat that grazes rapidly passed your hat on its way to the roost .
These are fleeting moments.
Monstfur. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
M-City and Martha. Colombia. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Filmmaker Radek Drozdowicz. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Louis and D*Facew. Colombia. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Ben Eine and Connor. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ben Eine and Connor. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Monstfur. Colombia. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Monstfur. Colombia. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
M-City and Martha. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
M-City. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Louis Jensen. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Toxicomano. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Wildife. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Wildife. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Wildife. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Wildife. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Barrel’s rings. Colombia. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
This event has been made possible by Dictador Art Masters Foundation. To learn more about the foundation click here.
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