Street Art: 2020-2021
The COVID-19 pandemic caused me to feel all the creeping emotions: paranoia, dread, distrust, loneliness, fear. I found it impossible to balance them out with joy, humor, punk-rock-no-fucks-given, fellowship. I noticed that street artists were wheatpasting art on the boarded up store fronts around my neighborhood, and realized that I could work through my feelings at watching my livelihood and world disappear, bring joy and humor to my community and use art to prevent vandalism in my community with some simple ingredients: flour, water, ink, paper.
Street art, wheatpasting, murals, this was all new to me. I draw with ink, but never at this scale. It is an evolving body of work.
Download a poster to memorialize whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang 李文亮医生 who tried to spread the word about COVID and was repressed by the Chinese government until he died of the disease.
Mask Propaganda Posters
The other wheatpaste series I’ve been doing, is a pure work of propaganda/public education. Inspired by my neighbors, and their inability to understand what is and isn’t an appropriate mask, I’ve drawn these public education posters.
