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Relationship XXVI – “Keeping Company with a Couch Potato”

This piece was completed while in Atlanta, Georgia and then mailed to Gregory Travis in Brookville, New York on 7/8/2011

RECYCLED TRASH AS ART:

I use old, cheesy record covers and trashy paperback book covers as a starting point for my hand-cut and paste collages. I then use only objects found on the ground, in the trash, junk mail or recycling bin. Sometimes incorporating my own Polaroid photographs. Then I leave them out in public as street art for everyone to enjoy (or destroy.) I have also started mailing small pieces out to some people.

 

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Relationship XXV – “Now that you’re all Patriotic and Stuff”

Via Flickr:
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.

see where it was left in Atlanta, Georgia:
Relationship XXV - left in Atlanta

see the original album cover:
Corina "Now that you're Gone" (Relationship XXV)

watch a short video of people ignoring my artwork:

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Relationship XXIV – “Death Has Three Moms”

Via Flickr:
Relationship XXIV – “Death Has Three Moms”
This was my first collage on a book cover though I’d been planning to do it for a while.
“Death has three lives: A Mike Shayne Mystery” by Brett Haliday.
It was completed in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on 6/19/2011 while spending the night in the hospital accompanying my mother who was recovering from open-heart surgery.

This was mailed (along with #XXVII) to an online acquaintance, Robert Warner in New York in June of 2011.

see the original paperback book cover:
Halliday - Death Has Three Lives - (Collage XXIV)

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Relationship XXIII – “Every Love is the Woman from Ponyclub”

Via Flickr:
Relationship XXIII “Every Love is the Woman from Ponyclub” was completed and posted in Amsterdam, Holland on 5/23/2011 on a wall at the intersection of Singel Centrum and Geelvincksteeg Centrum.

see where it was left in Amsterdam:
Relationship XXIII - Left in Amsterdam

watch a short video of people ignoring my artwork:

see the original record cover:
Paul Mauriat - Blooming Hits (Collage XXIII)

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Relationship XXI “Can You Guess What is Real?”

THIS PIECE IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.
Large collage in four panels. approx. 3×4 feet. Made entirely with found objects on a “Guess” advertisement board.
click here for detailed view

This was my second collage made specifically for an art exhibition and not as street art. It was shown for “Parcours – 40”, le parcours d’artistes à Mons during the last two weekends in May of 2011.

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Relationship XX – “you can be anyone They want”

THIS PIECE IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE.
Large collage on a painting found in garbage – made entirely of found objects.
Approximately 5’x5′ (feet)

click here for detailed view

This was my first large collage, almost as tall as me, and also my first piece made specifically for an art exhibition and not as street art. It was shown for “Parcours – 40”, le parcours d’artistes à Mons during the last two weekends in May of 2011. I was working with the group Recycling Collective at the former Royal College of Fine Art in Mons, Belgium. The school had been abandoned for many years but I still found some of the students’ art lying around in the vacant rooms. This large painting of a face was crumpled up in a trash heap so I used it as my canvas to collage on.

"you can be anyone They want"

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Relationship XIX – “Big Treat from the Paradise Machine”

Via Flickr:
Collage with Found Objects
Relationship XIX – “Big Treat from the Paradise Machine”

This collage was left in Paris on 2/22/11 along Rue Aubry le Boucher near the Centré Pompidou.

see where it was left in Paris:
Relationship XIX (left in Paris)

see the original record cover:
Big Hits from the Fabulous 50s (Relationship XIX)

lance aram rothstein Record Covers Left on the Street

Relationship XVIII – “Parisienne Brute”

Via Flickr:
Relationship XVII – “Parisienne Brute”
This collage was left in Paris on 2/21/11 along Rue des Guillemites in Le Marais.

see where it was left in Paris:
Relationship XVIII (left in Paris)

see the original record cover:
Gaité Parisienne - (Relationship XVIII)

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Relationship XVII / “Show no interest in America’s thirst for imported oil.”

Via Flickr:
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:
Relationship XVII (left in Decatur, Georgia)

watch people ignore it:

see the original record cover:
25 Years of Show Hits 101 Strings (Relationship XVII)

lance aram rothstein Record Covers Left on the Street

Relationship XVI “Let’s All Indulge.”

Via Flickr:
Relationship XVI was completed and left on 12/31/10 on a vacant building behind a bus stop in Berlin, Germany along Veteranenstraße near the intersection of Brunnenstraße across from the Volkspark am Weinberg.

see where it was left:
Relationship XVI (left in Berlin)

see the original 45 record cover: Michael Zager Band “Let’s all Chant”
Michael Zager Band - Let's all chant / Love Express