The street appears in the living room when you visit some artists homes or those of hard core collectors. “Brooklyn is in da house!” suddenly takes on additional meaning. So imagine rolling through a heavily graffitied section of Bushwick this week to find someone’s living room is on display on the street. It’s like a set for a TV show, or a theater stage; The couch, the coffee table, a lamp, paneling, even a hard wood floor comprised of, well, not really hard wood. A hunter’s lodge maybe? A cabin in the Adirondacks? Without a back story, this looked like a stage had been built but you couldn’t be sure what for. Just as our intrepid photographer raised his camera to his eye, the woody indoor scene became exactly that – a stage.
“As I was taking the above photo a fast and furious dude came like a flash out of nowhere on his bike, stopped abruptly, and threw his bike on the floor,” says Jaime. “I didn’t know what to expect and watched him fish a spray can from a plastic shopping bag and step up on the sofa and write his tag upon the living room wall. The actor muttered something I couldn’t hear as he sprayed over another’s tag and then stepped down, leaving just as quickly as he has appeared. It was as if the fourth wall really did exist and he didn’t see me, the audience. I did want to ask him about the tag and about his very fashionable French chignon. But really, I wasn’t even visible.”
See him in action in the photo below.
Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring C215, Dain, Damon, Dope, Dotmasters, Jamie Paul Scanlon (JPS), Marilyn Minter, NRG US Crew, Pøbel, Richard Best, Stefan Ways, Wolfe Work, You Go Girl!, and Østrem.
Top Image >> The living room set in the street. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A stage set in the street with an impromptu live tagging performance. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pøbel and Østrem in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Artist Unknown. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Wolfe Work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
C215. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
You Go Girl (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jamie Paul Scanlon AKA JPS. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
NRG US Crew (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Dotmasters. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
Damon (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A fox by an artist from Chile. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)
DOPE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stefan Ways in front of his Warner Mural in Baltimore. Detail. (photo © David Muse)
Richard Best. Warner Mural in Baltimore (photo © David Muse)
Untitled. I took this photo from a Marilyn Minter video commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum for the current exhibition “Killer Heels” curated by Lisa Small. Brooklyn, NYC 2104. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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