Does street art communicate differently in sculptural form?
Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn’t have as much of a capacity. You’ve created a series called the Storker Project, based on a tape sculpture of a baby. It’s both playful and quite unsettling. Yeah, it’s both. Babies are wonderful but also fragile, and installing the kids outdoors to fend for themselves like a fresh crop of cicadas hits an unsettling nerve with some people. But I think the Storker Project makes a good analogy to the propagation of life by showing its beauty and vulnerability. Sometimes I install them in playful positions, while other times they’re scavenging or hanging on for life. One of my favorite experiences was an installation I did in Franklin Park in Washington. The place is sort of a camping ground for the homeless. I was installing
