RJFC sticker # 64 was completed on 12/4/15 while sitting at a Wendy’s restaurant in Seffner, FL. It’s collaged trash on a CD label measuring about 120mm across.
This sticker was stuck to a parking sign on 5/12/16 in St. Pete, Florida just outside the Morean Arts Center parking lot on 8th Street North.
RJFC sticker # 63 was completed on 12/2/15 while sitting at Starbucks in Safety Harbor. It’s collaged trash on a CD label measuring about 120mm across.
This sticker was stuck to the back of a bus stop bench on 1/9/16 just near the Cass Contemporary art gallery on South MacDill Ave & West Granada Street.
Sticker # 62 was completed on December 1, 2015 while sitting at Starbucks at SR60 & Belcher in Clearwater. These rectangular stickers measure about 45mm x 118mm.
This sticker was left on an electrical box behind a bus stop on in Orlando, Florida, while I was there on a day-trip on 1/19/16. This was on Round Lake Road near the intersection of International Drive in front of a Walgreens, beside the Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant where I’d met an old friend.
During my first visit to the Florida Keys in 2015, I left five pieces out on the streets.
As detailed in my previous post, for the commemoration of my 100th “Relationship” collage, I made a series of 10 (+1 artist’s proof) collaged book pages. This piece (Relationship C) was left on 11/22/15 in Key West, Florida. I stuck it on a Key West Citizen Newspaper box beside the (closed) Backspace Bar & Kitchen at the intersection of James St. and Grinnell St.
RJFC Sticker # 59 was completed in Clearwater, Florida around 11/3/15, using found trash on a CD label.
It was left on 11/22/15, on the outside of a purple magazine distribution box for Key West Maps & Coupons, just beside the famous Schooner Western Union, in the Key West Bight Marina at the end of William Street.
Stickers No. 60 & 61 were completed on 11/19/15 while sitting at a Panera restaurant at Clearwater Mall. These rectangular stickers all measure about 45mm x 118mm each.
Sticker # 60 was left on the signpost for Mile 0 of US Highway 1 in Key West on 11/22/15.
Sticker # 61 was left on a telephone pole in front of Florida Bay Outfitters, beside Jimmy Johnson’s Big Chill Restaurant and Bar (where we had lunch) on US Highway 1 in Key Largo on 11/24/15.
RJFC Relationship CXIII ~ “A Strictly Limited Edition of Five Hundred Knives Helps Build Lean Muscle over your existing higher interest debts” was made with found trash on a 45 record. It was also completed on 11/19/15 while sitting at a Panera restaurant at Clearwater Mall.
RJFC Relationship CXIII was left on the back of a sign while exiting Mallory Square toward Tifts Alley in Key West on 11/23/15.
RJFC Sticker # 58 was completed on 10/8/15 using found trash on a CD label. It was made while sitting with friends KickFace & Windingears in St. Petersburg, Florida .
It was left the same day, on a lamp post outside The Amsterdam bar on Central Avenue.
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RJFC Sticker # 54 was completed in November of 2014 using found trash on a rectangular label. It was made while sitting at a Starbucks in Satellite Beach, Florida.
It was left on 12/5/14 on a railroad signal post near the entrance to the Context Art Fair at Northeast 29th Street. (above)
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RJFC Sticker # 54 “CANDY COATED … CHOCOLATE FLAVORED brief blaze of glory” was completed in November of 2014 using found trash on a CD label. It was made while sitting at a Starbucks in Satellite Beach, Florida.
It was left on 12/4/14, on a stair post outside the bar of the SCOPE Art Fair in Miami Beach.
After spending more than five years in Mons, Belgium, and discovering my love for collage and street art there, I’ve moved back to my native Florida. But before leaving, I took some time to post a few pieces of artwork in my beloved temporary home.
First up is a collaged Polaroid picture from my Picturecrossing series.
picturecrossing No.608
A virtually blank shot (of a wall near Santa Croce in Florence, Italy) , so I collaged it with trash and found objects.
CAMERA: 1st Edition White Freitag Model 2 SX-70
FILM: Impossible Project PX100 Silver Shade (5/2010)
DATE SHOT: 12/31/11
DATE COLLAGED: 11/5/14
LEFT: PX No.608 was left in Mons, Belgium on 11/6/14 on the back of a street sign at the Rue d’ Havré entrance of the Grand Place. This is right near the wonderful Café “Le Pain Quotidien” which you can see near the top right. We spent countless hours (and Euros) there with friends and great food. You can even see part of one of my last receipts from there in this collage where it says: “Thank You Goodbye.”
See more of my Picturecrossings at: www.picturecrossing.com
or some blog entries at http://picturecrossing.blogspot.com/
Next up is one from my sticker series.
RJFC Sticker # 53 was completed on 11/5/14 using found trash on a rectangular label. Like all three collages in this listing, it was done while sitting in our hotel room at the Ibis Hotel near the train station in Mons, Belgium. We stayed there for about a week after we moved out of our house on Rue de la Tour Auberon and waited for our flight back to America.
It was left the next day, 11/6/14 on a boarded-up building at 9 Rue de la Clef in Mons, Belgium. This building, with the supposed head of Saint John over the doorway, had been boarded up when we arrived in 2009 and was still the same when we left in 2014. It was always a place where street art and posters would stay up for a while.
The last item is Relationship LXXXVI ~ “Disposable Silencers”
This, my 87th “relationship” collage, was completed 11/5/2014 using trash from the streets, on a used DVD.
It was left the next day, 11/6/14 on the window of an old bookshop on Rue de la Houssière near the train station in Mons, Belgium. This building had also been closed the entire time we lived in Mons and often had some good art posted there.
So, that’s my farewell to Mons. Thanks for all the memories. Hope to see you again sometime.
~ Adieu.
RJFC Sticker # 52 was completed on 10/13/14 using found trash on a rectangular label and it was left the same day on a utility box outside the visitor’s center at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England (below.)
During the summer of 2014 I made several trips to the Saarland area in Germany and while there I left two stickers and one Relationship Collage.
RJFC Sticker # 50 (above) was completed on 7/25/14 using found trash on a CD label and it was left the same day on a girder of a stairwell of an on-base housing unit at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany (below).
RJFC Sticker # 51 (above) was completed on 7/25/14 using found trash on a CD label and it was left the next day, 7/26/14 on a utility box on a corner of Rotenhofstrasse in Saarbrücken, Germany (below.)
Ray Johnson Fan Club Relationship LXXXIV ~ “ITEMS INTENTIONALLY LEFT No Detail is an Accident” (above) was completed 8/1/2014 using trash from the streets, on a used DVD and it was left the same day at a bus stop on the campus of the University Hospital of Saarland in Homburg, Germany (below).
Das ist alles für heute (that’s all for today) folks. I’m catching up slowly but surely.
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