This was too good an opportunity to resist.
I’ve been walking past these breeze blocks for a few days – I go past them on the way to the studio. They’re right outside a homeless hostel, and no-one has claimed them. It looks like they’ve just been dumped there by some builder who had them left over from a job.
I decided to transform them (with a few simple additions from a marker pen) into little characters with their own personalities. They are the Breeze Block Family.
They are still on the street where I found them. Free art again, just not on a Friday.
I think that they will have a big impact on people more than the pax stuff because they are so arresting visually, spatially etc. It’s just a shame that the pax stuff took so much longer to do.
This is a series that I would love to see develop. Heck I might even join you.
It’s funny as sculpture is a media I’m not that comfortable. I’ve done about two in my life.
And in a way, these still are paintings, as I’ve only marked one side of them.
These do also owe a slight debt to Anthony Gormley’s “Field” if you know it:
http://www.antonygormley.com/viewproject.php?projectid=10
I love this. Genius. Regardless of any artistic merit (of which undoubtedly there is some) making people smile and brightening up their day is a gift and this has done both for me – bravo.
Sam x
Ah thanks Sam, that’s very nice of you to say so.