As we moved into our self directed block in the studio this term I found myself being drawn back to the string project and wanting to further it despite my original plans to concentrate on photography and video. However this time I wanted to use public ânonâ spaces, areas open to and seen by the public which arenât actually serving any particular purpose. Iâm interested in the idea of impermanence and the publics reaction, or lack of reaction to what one might do in these spaces that arenât being used for anything in the first place. If I was caught with a can of spray paint tagging an electricity box there could potentially be a very different reaction to if I was caught wrapping some twine around a bus stop and the reason why is was interests me at the moment. The apparent permanence of paint is what offends people, although it is really very impermanent and very easy, if somewhat inconvenient, to remove or paint over. To remove some string is even easier, so easy that most people wouldnât even bother because they know itâs causing no damage and will be so straightforward to remove. To me, drawing with string in these public places is no different to tagging, or piecing, or painting a mural-the impermanence of all of these acts is only decided upon by the community into which it is placed and how it is viewed by the inhabitants. I feel a similar attitude could be held by Jeanne-Claude and Christo in regards to their projects, âThey prompt no concern that an undesirable neighbor is being foisted upon the public for all time; rather, their work offers a temporary interjection into a given environment, makes its statement, and the moves on and out.â (Knight, 2011, p.141) Whether one considers oneself a public artist, a street artist or a graffiti writer all of these movements are creating a new world in the space in which they are placed, be that legally or illegally. By doing something as simple as tying a piece of string from one barrier to the next, throwing a pair of shoes over a telephone line or painting your name on a wall you are engaging with that space and transforming it into something more and/or different than what it was.
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