Guerilla Art

Yesterday I got all sidetracked and ended up looking at guerilla art sites. You know - the "attack, art, and leave" stuff like graffiti, temporary art, and such.

Kel challenged us a while back to a bit of public dancing, or performance, or exuberance - which I guess you could also classify guerilla art.

The coolest one I've seen is this idea. Park(ing) was created as a temporary urban "intervention", providing a little green public space for the price of a parking place. Way cool, totally creative - and not something I would have come up with!

My son and I have done a bit of guerilla art in our time. (The term "Terrorist Evangelism" got me in a whole lot of comment hot water at the time!) We had fun with it, but that was a very long time ago.

Lately I've been wondering how I can be publicly and anonymously creative - ie guerilla art! As I walk my town and community, my eye picks up potential walls and roads and such that would be really good canvasses. I would love to cover them in something non-permanent, surprising, beautiful - random art. A bit like the street chalk my son and I used perhaps, or a couple of posters, stickers, sculpture installations in unexpected places.

And talking of the unexpected, I've always has this secret desire to go build Cape Dutch style buildings in places you wouldn't expect to find them - atop the Himalayas, deep in a rainforest, in the middle of the Sahara...

But back to the subject at hand.

With an urge to be creative, I've been trying to find the outlets that will allow me to express this, but without making myself too visible. I'm no artist when it comes to spray-paint, huge murals or standing in a park painting the scenery. I can't cover skyscrapers in fabric to create an art piece, and have never yet sneaked one of my own drawings into a gallery. But I can manage the draw-and-dash (or stencil-and-dash) style required for instant and temporary art.

I just need to find medium, method and place. And if I do, you may just see the results right here.