Relationship CXII – (POLEMIQUES sans grandes expos)
A 12 inch record collaged with found trash and stenciled with deStijl lines in red, yellow, gray & chartreuse. Completed on 4/19/2016.
Sent to
Brooklyn for exhibition:
“Works of Art” at Bushwick Spray Paint Shop on 4/30/16
1009 Broadway, Bell 203, Brooklyn, NY
Then left on the streets of Brooklyn after the show.
Ray Johnson Fan Club Relationship LXXXIX ~ “YOUR DAILY DOSE OF LUCKIES TASTE BETTER WITH FULL mercury emissions” was completed 11/11/2014 using trash from the streets, on a 33 LP Record. It was made while sitting at Starbucks in Satellite Beach, Florida.
It was left 2/7/15 during an art fair in Eau Gallie, Florida, on a utility box along Eau Gallie Blvd. in the Eau Gallie Arts District (EGAD). (above)
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Ray Johnson Fan Club Relationship LXXXVIII ~ “PHONE TAPPED?” was completed 11/2014 using trash from the streets, on a 45 record. It was made while sitting at a Starbucks in Satellite Beach, Florida.
It was left 12/5/14 in Miami Beach on a water hook-up at the intersection of Pennsylvania Ave. & N. Lincoln Lane. (above)
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Every time we decide to take a trip, it’s difficult not to choose Venice again. I discover something different every time I visit. I left three pieces during this trip.
Ray Johnson Fan Club Relationship LXXV ~ “Putin offers new information about the birth of the universe” was completed 3/22/2014 using only trash from the streets of Venice on the album cover “Sheherazade: Artur Rodzinski conducting the Cleveland Orchestra”.
This collage was left the same day on the closed-up “Salumeria” shop, between the fish market and floating vegetable market along Fondamenta Sant’ Anna.
See where it was left below.
RJFC Sticker #44 was completed on 2/27/14 using only trash on a rectangular label. I made it while sitting at l’Excelsior restaurant in Mons, Belgium.
It was left in Venice, Italy on 3/19/14, on an advertisement poster for Boggi Blue Code, in the shelter at the Giardini vaporetto stop (above).
RJFC Sticker #45 was completed on 2/27/14 using only trash on a CD label. I made it while sitting at l’Excelsior restaurant in Mons, Belgium.
It was left (above) in Venice, Italy on 3/21/14, on a metal utility panel, just below a devotional statuette of Jesus at the Santa Maria del Giglio church near Ponte Duodo O Barbarigo. Shortly after I posted the sticker, an old man stopped to look at it for a full two minutes. After which, he promptly tore it off the wall and threw it in a nearby trash can.
Dust to dust…
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I’d visited Madrid once before back in 2004, but that was before I’d started doing any kind of street art. I have to say I wasn’t overly excited about going again, other than seeing our best friends from England who were meeting us there, but I must admit that it turned out to be an extremely enjoyable trip.
Here’s what I left while I was there…
Ray Johnson Fan Club Relationship LXXIV ~ “MADRID continues to lead with ZARATHUSTRA ON THE WILD SIDE OF MY LIFE” was completed 3/7/2014 using trash found on the streets of Madrid on the album cover “Top of the Pops Vol. 31”.
This collage was left the same day on a wooden planter near the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain.
I also left two stickers in Madrid.
RJFC Sticker #43 (below) was completed on 2/27/14 using only trash on a CD label. I made it while sitting at l’Excelsior restaurant in Mons, Belgium.
It was left in Madrid, Spain on 3/7/14, on a light-blue mailbox at the intersection of Calle de Atocha and Calle de San Pedro. There was a massive line of people there which started two days before, for the devotional pilgrimage to see the Cristo de Medinaceli statue of Jesus, which happens every first Friday in March.
RJFC Sticker #46 (below) was also completed on 2/27/14 using only trash on a rectangular label. I made it while sitting at l’Excelsior restaurant in Mons, Belgium.
It was left in Madrid, Spain on 3/5/14, on a signpost at the intersection of Calle de San Eugenio and Calle San Ildefonso, Just down the street from our rental apartment there.
Well, that’s it for this trip – Hasta Luego.
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Ray Johnson Fan Club Relationship LXXIII “oversize Thigh Spicy” “ was made over two days at the end of January or beginning of February 2014, while sitting at McDonalds in Mons, Belgium. I made it using a 45 record and trash found on the streets.
I left it in Paris , France on 2/15/2014, on a closed-up shop along Rue Vieille du Temple near Rue des Rosiers before having dinner at Chez Hanna.
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Ray Johnson Fan Club Relationship LXXI “Deutsche in one easy lesson!”was completed 9/7/2013 using trash found on the streets. I made it on a 12″ record, while sitting at “Café ou Thé” and “Excelsior” in Mons, Belgium.
This collage was left 10/19/2013 on a yellow mail box beside the Place Blanche Metro station in Monmartre, Paris.
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USING TRASH OFF THE STREETS TO MAKE ART ON THE STREETS.
I use only trash and found items to make these one-of-a-kind, hand cut and paste, signed & numbered artworks. I use trashy paperback book covers, record & magazine covers, CDs, 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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FANCLUB 13 