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OBEYBOSTON2009
DREAMSCAPE/NIGHTMARE
SHEPARD FAIREY'S STREET ART
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| LIMINAL BOSTON courtesy ASHES57 |
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Boston's veneer comes under further assault with Shepard Fairey's street art. The city has, for far too long, been both held hostage to and defined by Stanley Forman's 1976 photograph of a young Ted Landsmark being attacked by a flagpole-wielding demonstrator in City Hall Plaza.
Fairey's work offers the real promise of cultural implosion, aesthetic reinterpretation, opportunities for conversation and reconciliation. The artist's work is best experienced in the liminal hours on the streets of this city and there, its visceral impact is heightened by the absence of cultural and moneyed sanction.
The democratic nature and vital allure of Fairey's work are incontestable. With time, perhaps the city's earlier and still-lurking nightmare can be replaced by Fairey's considerably more inclusive dreamscape.
The CCG Digital Atelier is pleased to offer an online gallery of riveting images which focus on the making of Fairey's street art with all of the danger and celebration inherent in the enterprise. Our project with its visually arresting narrative is available on YouTube under a Creative Commons license. Much praise and thanks are due to the gloriously-talented Ashes57 for providing these extraordinarily compelling images.
Lorraine Lezama for Clarendon Care Group's Digital Atelier
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