Found art
18 July 2004. Inspired by .
So there we all were, gathered in a small corner of a square near my flat as accomplished graffiti artists from all over Europe nailed things to the wall.
This was Finders Keepers on tour. The rules are simple enough: they get drunk, they grab things from the street, they paint them and then the following day the objects are all gathered in one place. There's a lot of natter and some networking (people exchanging their stickers instead of business cards). And then, when the organisers say the word, anyone around can grab what they like the look of and take it home.
Given that many of these people work as professional illustrators when they're not doing public (illegal) exhibitions, there were some real beauties among the oddities. And hanging around for more than an hour paid off as we seem to have grabbed a lot of it for our flat, including a newly-painted lifejacket that the friendly German fellow behind this site said he'd grabbed on the flight over. Still, could have been worse. His companion brought in a traffic light ("I found it by the side of the road, by some construction work" he claimed; no-one believed him).
My snaps from the rowdy and fun event are here and if anyone knows who the artists behind these are (the style of the pale figure on the little disc in particular seems somewhat familiar) I'd rather like to know. Next stop - some varnish to protect it all.