Day 4408: Art Billboards,and Bamboo.

"Worry": Digital collage.

    

  

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Click : Naoki Sugi, How Deep Is Your Love

  

 

 

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An Artist-Designed New Book Chronicling

Artist, JR,“Migrants, Mayra, Picnic across the border, Tecate, Mexico.” (2017). Salome, Arizona

 Billboards For Freedoms

For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? is a comprehensive 340-page collection of more than 550 artist-designed billboards from the last seven years. You might notice some familiar names involved in the project, such as Hank Willis Thomas, JR, and Nari Ward. Whether it be a pair of eyes staring straight forward, an impactful question directed toward the viewer, or the simplicity of the word “human being” in Arabic, each design leaves its audience to reflect on the issue at hand.

ari Ward, “Mass Action” (2016). Lexington, Kentucky.

Popping up in different corners of the United States from rural areas to urban centers, the works tackle a multitude of societal challenges and humanitarian crises that require urgency and advocacy. In contrast to a billboard’s usual profit-driven, commercial function, the large-scale structures instead become poignant messages in line with For Freedoms’ overall mission. By spotlighting short but compelling phrases, powerful imagery, and clever placement, the public installations act as a force for widespread movement.

Christine Sun Kim, “Words Shape Reality” (2018). Jefferson City, Missouri.

Hank Willis Thomas, “Who Taught You To Love?” (2020). Des Moines, Iowa

Robinson and the Visiting Room Project, “I’ve Been Here All My Life” (2022). Detroit, Michigan. 

Hank Willis Thomas, Emily Shur, Eric Gottesman, and Wyatt Gallery, “Let Love Quiet Fear” (2020). Atlanta, Georgia.

Emily Hanako Momohara, “Family Incarceration: Never Again is Now” (2018). Nampa, Idaho. 

Jamila El Sahili, “Human Being” (2018). Lansing, Michigan.

Justin Brice Guariglia, “We Are The Asteroid” (2018). Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Hank Willis Thomas, “All Lives Matter” (2018). St. Louis, Missouri.

 

  

 

A 4  minute video, Nicholas Lee, Ceramics, here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

  

scale-crested pygmy tyrant

 

  

 

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