RJFC Hits Madrid for the first time.

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…

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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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Relationship LXI – all the Unreal Children LOVE the super surprise-party Penguin

Relationship LXI – all the Unreal Children LOVE the super surprise-party Penguin

Relationship LXI - all the Unreal Children LOVE the super surprise-party Penguin
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MADE WITH TRASH FROM THE STREETS OF BARCELONA
My 61st collage: Relationship LXI – “all the Unreal Children LOVE the super surprise-party Penguin” was completed and posted on December 30, 2012 in Barcelona Spain. It was made using the album cover from the record “Ralph the Sax & the Loveletts
This hand cut-and-paste collage took about 5 hours to complete. It was made using only trash found on the streets of Barcelona. Some of the notable items of trash include; green halo rays from a Mango Bar wrapper, service icons from a map of the Montserrat Abbey, government heads from a discarded financial paper, freedent gum wrapper, blue & white police tape, logo grid from a shop flyer, printer’s color-check marks from a pizza box, party penguin from part of an album cover, part of a Coke Zero label, fashion catalog order form, magnetic “bed” piece, “imagine” Hard Rock Cafe flyer, etc, etc,…
Relationship LXI (left in Barcelona)
I left this on a utility box along Avinguda Para-Lel in the Poble Sec neighborhood near the intersection of Carrer Tapioles.

 

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RJFC Sticker #12 (posted in Barcelona)

RJFC Sticker #12 (posted in Barcelona)

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RJFC Sticker #12 was completed on 12//29/2012 and posted the same day on a Spanish postal box along Passeig Joan Borbó near Barceloneta Beach, Spain.
sticker #12 posted in Barceloneta

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 so each is one-of-a-kind. 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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RJFC Sticker #11 (posted in Barcelona)

RJFC Sticker #11 (posted in Barcelona)
Ray Johnson Fan Club sticker #11
Sticker #11 was completed and posted on 12/29/2012 along Carrer del Comerç in Barcelona outside the display window of the J.VALL bicycle shop there. We were on our way to see the C215 exhibition at the Montana Gallery down the road when we came across a nice stencil by him on the way. I had this one last sticker in my bag and posted it nearby.

sticker #11 posted in Barcelona

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 so each is one-of-a-kind. 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.)

RJFC Sticker #9 Posted in Barcelona

RJFC Sticker #9 Posted in Barcelona, Spain.

Ray Johnson Fan Club sticker #9

Sticker #9 was completed and posted on 12/29/2012 in Pl. les 3 Xemeneies in the Poble Sec neighborhood of Barcelona along Para-lel. I left it right between a Mimi the Clown piece and a nice large wall by Marina Capdevila.
sticker #9 posted in Barcelona
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 so each is one-of-a-kind. 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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RJFC Stickers #7&8 posted in Montserrat

RJFC Stickers #7&8 posted in Montserrat, Spain.

Ray Johnson Fan Club sticker #7Ray Johnson Fan Club sticker #8

Stickers #7 & 8 were completed on 12/26/2012 and left the next day on a sign along the tracks at the Montserrat-Aeri train station. We’d just finished descending the mountain on the arial cable car and were waiting for the next train back to Barcelona.
stickers # 7&8 posted in Montserrat

 

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.)

Relationship LX – “YES SIR I CAN compromise MY insatiable spirit”

Relationship LX - "YES SIR I CAN compromise MY insatiable spirit"

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MADE WITH TRASH FROM THE STREETS OF BARCELONA
My 60th collage: Relationship LX – “YES SIR I CAN compromise MY insatiable spirit” was completed and posted on December 28, 2012 in Barcelona Spain. It was made using the double album cover from the record “Yes Sir I Can Boogie.”
Yes Sir I Can Boogie (Collage LX)

This hand cut-and-paste collage took about 9 hours to complete. It was made using only trash found on the streets of Barcelona. Some of the notable items of trash include; halo rays from gum wrappers, black cat russian candy wrapper, empty pill packet, phone case receipt, automobile impound notice, scene from Call of Duty ad, Chupa Chup lollypop holder, part of a WINston cigarette pack and tax stamp, 100% natural ingredient badge from packet of crisps, ticket stub from Sagrada Familia, & clipping from Ikea flyer, clipping from a KFC packet, map showing the grounds of the Montserrat Abbey, dot-matrix computer paper edge, part of an “ONCE” charity lottery card, clippings from a Justin Bieber concert flyer, part of a Desigual 5€ coupon, background of a the Spanish stock market report, etc, etc,…

I left this on 12/28/12, posted on the glass encasement in the center of the skatepark in front of MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) for anyone to enjoy (or destroy…)

Relationship LX (left in Barcelona)

RJFC Sticker #6 posted in Barcelona

Ray Johnson Fan Club Sticker #6

Ray Johnson Fan Club Sticker #6

completed 12/2012 – posted the same day on a WC stall outside Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia Cathedral in the park across Carrer de Sardenya in Barcelona.

sticker #6 posted in Barcelona

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.)

RJFC Sticker #5 left in Barcelona

RJFC Sticker #5 posted in Barcelona.

Ray Johnson Fan Club Sticker #5
Completed in December 2012 while visiting Barcelona, Spain. This sticker was posted on 12/26/2012 just outside of MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona).
sticker #5 posted in Barcelona

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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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