I know I've mentioned it before, but part of the reason I enjoy my personal scavenger hunt is that I never know what I'm going to find. Every sign, pole, mailbox, trash can, and bench holds the potential to be someone's canvas. Sometimes the piece of public property exhibits a single sticker, giving it your undivided attention. But more often than not these communal canvases hold a variety of stickers; sometimes multiple examples of a single artist and other times multiple artists' work. And what's great is that these canvases are never same.
When it comes to communal canvases like this pole behind the Bloomfield sign, it gets to be hard trying to single out just one sticker to focus on. There's clearly two more examples of 9's housewife in a gas mask, a couple of Daily Bread's logo, the Brass Action logo, a partial of an owl, a guy in a cap, and a couple others I can't quite make out here. While I could go into more detail about the ones I can make out, I think that would be a disservice for the whole collection here. Today's post is less of a look at the individual stickers, but how they interact with each other. One of the things I realized early on with this project is that it is constantly ever changing. An object that I took a picture of a year ago or even just a month ago will rarely be the same if I went back today. Stickers are fairly impermanent: wearing away with the weather, getting covered up with other stickers or graffiti, getting torn down or painted over. Each visit will produce a different result, a new collection to photograph. It's also why I post the location with each photo, so you can go looking for yourself and see how the sticker has changed. I know I have other photos of all of these stickers, ones that I can easily delve further into since they will be the sole subject. While I will always try to post new items, new stickers that you haven't seen, there will always be repeats. Ones that are so frequently seen that it's hard not to have thirty versions of the same sticker. But at the same time, each new location gives you a different view and appreciation of the sticker. So with each new canvas I find, I hope to give you the reader a small taste of the city.
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Maggie Ondrey
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