Remember the lazy days of summer when we were kids, running around in August with our pack of friends making up sh*t to avoid boredom and to look busy so our parents wouldn’t make us do chores?

The excitement of July has passed and August will last forever.

All the stickball, hide-n-seek, and doctor games have gone a little old, like the garbage piled on the curb. The days of August require more creativity to keep us entertained: we insist on building bigger bike ramps, staging grander battles, concocting more complicated schemes that border on true mischief. Those thoughts came rushing back when we discovered the amazing art-fest that Overunder, ND’A, White Cocoa, Gawd and Labrona just smacked up.  Imaginations are running wild.

Like a rambunctious pack of happy sweaty kids they are darting around behind trees and corners, counting to 20 and announcing, “Here I come!”.  We want to be in the Secret Club of art making – where’s the tree house? Or is it a tepee? Or just somebodies older sister’s bedroom, covered with posters of Katy Perry and Young Jeezy?  This new output is generous and inspiring. In a recent interview with Overunder he said “collaborations allow me to drop the draw-bridge and open up the work to new concepts, aesthetics, even accidents.” This stuff show how the draw-bridge has dropped and the concepts are skipping forth.

Labrona (© Jaime Rojo)

White Cocoa (© Jaime Rojo)

White Cocoa. Detail. (© Jaime Rojo)

Labrona with Overunder (© Jaime Rojo)

White Cocoa, Labrona and Overunder (© Jaime Rojo)

Gawd (© Jaime Rojo)

Overunder with ND’A (© Jaime Rojo)

Overunder (© Jaime Rojo)

Overunder with ND’A (© Jaime Rojo)

A street muse makes for a lively summer installation, and possible inspiration. (© Jaime Rojo)

Labrona, ND’A and Overunder (© Jaime Rojo)

Overunder (© Jaime Rojo)

White Cocoa (© Jaime Rojo)

To read an interview with Overunder go HERE

To see more White Cocoa Images go HERE

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