BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
Today we revisit Utsira, the tiny island in Norway that has hosted a few Street Artists over the last couple of years, like Ella & Pitr and Icy & Sot. This year the fine artist and Street Artist Gonzalo Borondo blended into the hills and the forest and the lapping waves, making his spirit dissipate into the community and into a boat.
Borondo. Utsira. Utsira, Norway. Summer 2018. (photo courtesy of the organizers)
His philosophical take on the outer world here, with its strength in its small close knit numbers, its seafaring economy and traditions, its physical realities transcended by metaphysical ones… lead him to this new mural and his renewed hope in communal strength.
Borondo. Utsira. Utsira, Norway. Summer 2018. (photo courtesy of the organizers)
See here in these images the process of staging the scene, the models, the central organizing boat and its associations – now transformed to a door when centered as it is on this building. Of equal importance is the circle of hands that surround it, grasp it, hold it, support it, keep it on course.
“There’s a strong sense of community,” he says as he reflects on the metaphor he has chosen to represent his time here on an island of only 420 people, “There is a mutual support among citizens and a common feeling of enjoying the same unique condition.”
Borondo. Utsira. Utsira, Norway. Summer 2018. (photo © Borondo)
Borondo. Utsira. Utsira, Norway. Summer 2018. (photo courtesy of the organizers)
Borondo. Utsira. Viking graffiti. Utsira, Norway. Summer 2018. (photo © Borondo)
Borondo. Utsira. Utsira, Norway. Summer 2018. (photo © Borondo)
Borondo. Utsira. Utsira, Norway. Summer 2018. (photo courtesy of the organizers)
Borondo. Utsira. Utsira, Norway. Summer 2018. (photo courtesy of the organizers)
Borondo. Utsira. Utsira, Norway. Summer 2018. (photo courtesy of the organizers)
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