RJFC Sticker # 57 was completed 2/18/15 using found trash on a CD label. It was made while sitting at a Starbucks in Clearwater, Florida and it was mailed to a fan in Bogota Columbia.
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Relationship XCI ~ “Naked Officer Attempts to Steal Tender Definition of Victory” sent to the UK.
Ray Johnson Fan Club Relationship XCI ~ “Naked Officer Attempts to Steal Tender Definition of Victory” was completed 1/26/2015 using trash from the streets, on an old, used paperback romance book (Tender Betrayal by Lauren Wilde.) It was made while sitting at a Starbucks in Clearwater and it was sent 1/26/15 (with sticker # 56) to a friend, artist and musician Darren Riley in Bolton, UK.
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RJFC Sticker # 56 sent to the UK
RJFC Sticker # 56 was completed 1/26/2015 using trash from the streets, on a rectangular label. It was made while sitting at a Starbucks in Clearwater and it was sent the same day (along with Relationship XCI) to a friend, artist and musician Darren Riley in Bolton, UK.
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Relationship XC ~ “THIS MODERN WORLD CAN make you misty” up in the ATL.
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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Relationship LXXXIX ~ “YOUR DAILY DOSE OF LUCKIES TASTE BETTER WITH FULL mercury emissions” up in Eau Gallie Florida.
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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RJFC sticker # 55 left in Miami
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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Relationship LXXXVIII – “Phone Tapped?” left in Miami Beach
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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Relationship LXXXVII ~ “SHAKE WELL ©1976” left in Washington DC
Ray Johnson Fan Club Relationship LXXXVII ~ “SHAKE WELL ©1976” was completed 11/5/2014 using trash from the streets, on a used DVD.
It was made while staying at the Ibis hotel across from the train station in Mons, Belgium.
It was left 11/7/14 beside a Starbucks in the Washington Dulles Airport.
RJFC Sticker # 54 left in Miami Beach
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.
RJFC says farewell to Mons.
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.
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