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Portraits in foam spring up in Jamaica Plain
By adamg on Wed, 02/17/2016 - 10:00am
Melissa Jean is loving the foam portraits springing up all over Jamaica Plain, in this case in Forest Hills.
Kris Aubuchon reports seeing a few in Roxbury as well.
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These have been around for
These have been around for years... the artist is based out of (or at least uses as a base of operations) the house on Amory Street with the eclectic artistic arrangement on the front yard (a little ways past the Brewery complex as you're headed north). They've been popping up all over Egleston Square for... 4 years, maybe? The fence around the condemned building on Montebello always has half a dozen of them, and they seem to rotate. Cool to see it expanding.
Oh, cool
That house is kind of amazing (well, the fencing and the yard, that is).
I love that house.
The trash can lid arrangement was fabulous, and the windmill-y things transfix my toddler every time she walks by. That house is on the advertised route from Stony Brook to the Sam Adams tour, so it's the first glimpse of JP that most people have. I'd love to read about who lives there, and whether it's their own artwork or some kind of collective.
It's his
I don't know his name, but I used to live near him & say hi occasionally, when he'd walk his dog. I'm almost certain he lives alone & owns that house.
His Name?
Foamksy
A-man , you're kidding ,
A-man , you're kidding , right? Amazing? That word is overworked but sheesh . Now , the old Haffenreffer Brewery , that was amazing.
Uhubbers are funny
Space saver trash all over the place and Uhubbers immediately do the 311 and call spacesaver users a-holes and worse.
Styrofoam trash all over the place and Uhubbers absolutely love it. It's art and sooooo special. The person who put it there is an artist and they love him.
typical anon
Hundreds of people regularly reading and commenting here on UH, but some people just love to imagine themselves the one sane voice howling in the wilderness. (And not uncommonly, those same people are often too lazy/afraid to register - what a suprise!)
Much as you'd like to believe that you're the reincarnation of Diogenes, anon, UHub sees plenty of opinions both pro and con wrt street art (eg this thread), spacesavers, grafitti, sports, schools, the mayah, etc ad nauseum.
Instead of trying to neg the interwebs, just have the balls to state your own opinion and stand behind it. (eg BB from Dot's comment below).
You'll be amazed to hear
You'll be amazed to hear that some of us are capable of making critical distinctions between similar things based on their intended purpose and actual consequences! For example, when I say "I like campfires because I can make smores on them," it would not necessarily imply that I enjoy watching houses burn to the ground. Similarly, it is possible to enjoy styrofoam waste repurposed as art, and also oppose the private appropriation of public goods by use of household waste, without contradicting oneself.
In other words, your analogy is bad and you should feel bad.
And both space savers and
And both space savers and this stuff end up blowing around the street as litter. A more apt comparison would be someone burning a house to the ground and someone burning a house to the ground while calling it "art." Guess what; they're still both arson. And these are still both litter.
Seriously?
Sorry folks but IMHO this is not art. This is litter. Not quite as bad as graffiti as it can be taken down and thrown away. I work near his house and whatever he wants to do on his own property is fine (even though his yard looks like a trash strewn vacant lot) but I draw the line at vandalizing public property.
Aw, shucks.
All right, guys, let's shut it down. We've had a definitive ruling from BB from Dot, who as well know is the sole arbiter of all artistic endeavors: this is Not Art. We'd better get it all cleaned up, before he starts tagging it as such.
Can't take credit for that
Sorry erik g but I am not the person behind the NOT ART campaign, simply personally not art in this case.
Vandalizing?
That would imply that he's destroying something or marking something permanently which isn't the case here. I have mixed feelings about his art--I love the drawings but find the styrofoam irritating--but I appreciate the creative spirit of it and find it utterly harmless.
I'm not exactly thrilled when
I'm not exactly thrilled when chunks of styrofoam blow around the neighborhood, and break into smaller and smaller pieces until they're impossible to clean up. And it's not exactly friendly to the environment, especially when it ends up in waterways.
Can't this person do guerrilla art with a material that doesn't make a mess?