scopOphilic_micromessaging_881 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.
Two years ago today, we embarked on a journey to showcase decades worth of MicroMessaging imagery from New York City and beyond. The original inspiration for the series was the wheat-pasting in NYC; whether it was the Guerrilla Girls, ACT UP, Barbara Kruger, concerts, ads, etc. They were wheat-pasted on every blank wall in the city by the "Wheat-paste Mafia."
In 1986, I started drawing a twisted, dog-like character called: CityDog. The first image here was the original sketch. The others became stickers that were put up around Chelsea/West Village between 1987 and 1993-ish. The second set is more of those early sketches from the late 1980s. That gave birth to a decades long curiosity/interest to photographically document the MicroMessaging, as I entitled it back then.
