This is what a candy wrapper Urban Camo Seed Bomb looks like after two weeks in the wild. While the painting is still intact; the combination of wind, fog, and sun has been less than kind to it’s physical shape . Not only is this candy wrapper twisted and warped but it’s a good five feet from the original placement site. We’ll see how long before it blows down the freeway embankment completely.
The latest Urban Camo Seed Bomb. Well, actually this was the first one I painted – I just didn’t get around to documenting it until now. Now it lives on an onramp embankment in East Oakland. A sad little spot full of weeds and trash; it seemed fitting and perhaps a more fertile locale than a sidewalk tree well.
The latest from the Urban Camo Seed Bomb series. Five new bottle caps straight from my art studio. More pics to follow as these are placed around East Oakland.
Pyramid Brewery Cap
A little backstory on this project…
Between working, sleeping, and socializing I split my time pretty evenly between Oakland and San Francisco. Given that most of that time is spent in the Tenderloin (where I work) or Fruitvale (where I live) I have a passing familiarity with urban blight and the underutilization of green space. The specific issues – and by “issues” I mean observable symptoms not their underlying causes – in each area differ immensely. In San Francisco, urban space is a cage – the grid-like layout of it’s streets and the box-like architecture of it’s buildings marching up and down hills like prison bars or long teeth. With buildings pressed up against the sidewalk and one another there’s a dearth of front yardage, a dearth of tree wells and a general dearth of visually accessible greenery. However, this series is not about that specific set of urban issues. Sorry San Francisco, this series is very much about Oakland’s relationship to space. Continue reading
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