As written in the Photo Essay on the works of Swoon: "The random passerby will simple love the way her work decorates the streets."
The post focused more on the portraits she glued to the red metal walls in Red Hook, but I loved the 'simply decorative' pieces as well. Do you see yourself cut these out of a piece of paper? I remember making paper cut outs when I was a child, but they never reached the level of detail that Swoon gets: very fine lines and simply gorgeous swirly geometry.
I'm jealous and will need to start practicing. A lot, probably. I've never been good with scissors.
Gorgeous cut outs in Black & White
I converted a few of her cutouts pasted on red metal sheets to black & white. I would hang these on my wall without a seconds thought.
These decorative pieces ranged from extensive to smaller and lower to the streets. As an artist I would probably love to do this too: challenge people to look at parts of the streets they would otherwise ignore.
Paste it everywhere!
Both yesterday's and above pieces have been glued on the red metal sheets in Red Hook. But I also found a few of her cut outs glued on surfaces that were uneven, broken, heavily influenced by weather and/or age, etcetera. Pasted over old wooden doors, under rain pipes, even on pieces that are moveable.
I love this one: there's a wooden door placed on the streets. It would have been easy to pick this door up and move it somewhere else. But now the artwork is pasted on the wall and partly over the door: would you still move the door, knowing you would tear the paper?
I somehow feel she did this on purpose, as if she wanted to glue the surroundings into the artwork and vice versa.
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