sticker # 70 was completed using a blue Hello My Name Is sticker on 12/18/15 while sitting at Starbucks on S. Dale Mabry near Kennedy Blvd. in Tampa. It was left on a sign column outside a Wendy’s restaurant on W. Hill Ave. in Valdosta, Georgia on 4/27/16.
Ray Johnson Fan Club Relationship XC ~ “THIS MODERN WORLD CAN make you misty” was completed 1/19/2015 using trash from the streets, on an old record cover ( Jackie Gleason: Music to make you misty.) It was made while visiting my mother’s house in Clarkston, Georgia.
It was left 1/19/15 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) in Downtown Atlanta near the MLK Center. I posted it on the wall of a seemingly abandoned business next to the Baha’l center of Atlanta on Edgewood Avenue.
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Ray Johnson Fan Club Sticker #25 was made only with trash from the streets of Cologne, Germany.
It was completed there on 4/20/2013 and given to my Mom, Karen R.
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USING TRASH OFF THE STREETS TO MAKE ART ON THE STREETS.
I use only trash and found items to collage these handmade, signed & numbered stickers. They are made to compliment my larger works which in which I use trashy paperback book covers, record & magazine covers, posters, postcards and other mass-produced media as a base for my hand-cut & paste collages, which I usually leave out on the streets for anyone to enjoy (or destroy.)
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picturecrossing No.540 (SX No.453) Another virtually blank shot. It was very hard to keep these pictures covered in the freezing wind so I got several blank or obscured shots. You could barely make out some lines and people walking in the back of this picture shot at the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin, so I drew on it and collaged with trash and found objects.
CAMERA: Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 SE – c.1978
FILM: Impossible Project PX600 Silver Shade (box #430 11052010)
This pack had an odd “#32” printed on the back as if they were actually using old Polaroid backing materials.
DATE SHOT:12/30/2010
DATE COLLAGED:10/2012
LEFT:PX No.540 was left in Savannah, Georgia, USA on 11/13/2012 at the Greyhound Bus station near West Youmans Street, (which seemed to be under renovation) just below a red fire alarm. (see photo below) I left it there while transferring busses on my 8-hour ride from Jacksonville to Atlanta.
see where it was left in Savannah, Georgia:
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My 57th collage: Relationship LVII – “Forget Saving the World. Defend Yourself from Charity for the Poor.” was completed and posted on November 19, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It was made using the album cover from the musical “Sweet Charity” (1966)
This hand cut-and-paste collage took about 8 hours to complete. Some of the notable items of trash include; part of a Covent Garden Tea Shop bag, Royal Mail postmark sticker, a “high five” ruler found on the ground at the Atlanta Zoo, halo rays from a chocolate wrapper, Fresh Taste seal from orange juice, cigarette promo codes, erectile disfunction ad, printer’s color marks from a paper towel pack, auto repair tag, microwave veggie notice, receipt from my Sam Flax art supplies, grey/silver tear-tab found in the parking lot at North Dekalb Mall, Chinese & tiger from Kung Fu Panda-themed glue stick package. etc, etc,…
I left this on a brick wall in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia next to “Profiling Solutions” at 174 Carroll Street S.E. (see photo below)
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My 56th collage: Relationship LVI – “I get Agonising Vibrations from The Good old Days.” was completed and posted on November 18, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It was made using the album cover from “I Get Around” by The Good Vibrations. (1978 – Disco covers of Beach Boys tracks, mostly lead sung by Luther Vandross.)
This hand cut-and-paste collage took about 8 hours to complete. Some of the notable items of trash include; a map of the Atlanta Zoo found on the ground there, a strip of vintage Tupperware labels, the printer’s color marks from a milk carton, my Delta baggage tags, halo rays from a chocolate wrapper, Financial Times illustration of Conrad Black (found on floor of airplane), Kroger Supermarket receipt (found in the parking lot), an illustration from a lazer level instruction booklet, a Monopoly $20 bill, part of a Gerhard Richter gallery ad, warnings from a cigarette ad, and a magazine clipping from an article on Chinese artist Liu Bolin. etc, etc…
I left this on a wall in Atlanta, Georgia the same day next to the Savannah College of Art & Design Atlanta at 1600 Peachtree Street Northeast. (see photo below)
see the original album cover:
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Completed & posted in Atlanta, Georgia on Memorial Drive at Harden Street on 7/24/2011.
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RAY JOHNSON FAN CLUB
This was the first collage where I used the “Ray Johnson Fan Club “L.A.R.” stamp.
Relationship XXV – ” Now that you’re all Patriotic and Stuff”
completed and posted on the street on July 4, 2011
Left along Euclid Avenue near Moreland Ave.NE in Little Five Points.
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Relationship XVII was completed and left on 1/14/11 in Downtown Decatur, Georgia, USA. I posted it on the wood covering a window along the pedestrian walkway heading west from the MARTA station.
see where it was left in Decatur, Georgia, USA:
watch people ignore it:
see the original record cover:
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