Street Artist, SETH, Paints Stamp
Here’s a story I missed last year but was thrilled to come across, nonetheless! It’s a wonderful mural by the street artist and self-described “globe painter,” SETH (who’s Instagram page is worth a look).
The composition makes for a stylized monument that pays homage to Tahiti’s cultural quilt past and a new postage stamp too.
A new postal stamp in French Polynesia highlights a mural at the “ONO’U” festival in Tahiti, a first for the multi-island country as well as the French Street Artist SETH and his local Tahitian collaborator, HTJ.
...The 6-story painting depicts a sleeping French Polynesian girl wrapped in a traditional pareo dress that also morphs into the traditional bed covering called a tifaifai.
Read the full article published at Brooklyn Street Art, here.
HTJ assists SETH with the mural’s background motif. ONO’U Street Art and Graffiti Festival. Tahiti, French Polynesia. 2015. (photo © Martha Cooper)
SETH. ONO’U Street Art and Graffiti Festival. Tahiti, French Polynesia. 2015. (photo © Martha Cooper)