The personal value of art can be determined by it's interpretation and it's explanation. Both approaches are equally valid. However, we believe that it's best to get the question before the answer.
"The sculptures I have built light up to emphasize the power of natural form. My photographs focus in on the tiny, overlooked spaces that are only symbols of the larger landscape."
We're not sure exactly who's paying for these street performances abroad, but they involve groups of people acting out public service announcements at the street level. In one example, clothing retailer H&M was supporting theater interventions for their factories working in Cambodia.
We've never been a big fan of using statistics as a motivator to get people to act. Perhaps because they've been abused, misused or overused. For whatever reason, like so many others, we've become desensitized to them.
In Sweden last summer, we picked up Urban Recreation by Akay and Peter. Thankfully, it has more pictures than words because it's in Swedish. While we might not get the full story from just the photos, there's plenty to love about these urban street artists.
If we were lucky enough, not only might we catch a glimpse of the latest artwork from Dave The Chimp painted on them, we might end up walking home with it.
The Arroyo Arts Collective's site-specific temporary installation exhibition, Zone 5 in the City: Art Sustaining Nature, refers to permaculture's classification of "Zone 5" as the wilderness zone from which we learn the important lesson of working with nature not against it.
A few months ago, we drove by a Hollywood billboard promoting what we thought was an art exhibition. It took us several more weeks, however, in slower traffic, to notice that there was something green about the billboards themselves.
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