Occupy did more than grab some headlines and inconvenience workers on Wall Street last year. It blew a hole open in the consciousness of a confused and battered public untethered and afloat in debt, denial, and 700 channels of mind-numbing distraction. As a result of the Occupy Movement and all it’s permutations, in many unexpected ways we woke up – we became enlivened, enraged, enthused, and possibly enlightened.
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Colorful and chaotic and unsettling in all its imperfections, this social awakening on the streets continues to talk to us and we continue to listen, even as powerful forces do everything to convince us that it’s over. If you monitor the messages of Street Art and graffiti, you know that the desire for social and economic justice can be strident and ongoing, and people are pretty pissed off.
Marking the one year anniversary of this citizens movement that has successfully shifted the public discourse and has introduced new terms to the collective vocabulary, here is a collection of images taken by photographer Jaime Rojo during the last year that captures some of the spirit and sentiment of the street.
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS. An artist’s rendering in progress of the scene at Liberty Park during OWS 2011 in NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A piece by Street Artist LMNOP (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS Window Display at Printed Matter Inc., in Chelsea NYC. 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS Window Display at Printed Matter Inc., in Chelsea NYC. 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS Window Display at Printed Matter Inc., in Chelsea NYC. 2011 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS. Adam Void . Rami Shamir. (photo © Adam Void)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
This sticker uses an image of a piece by Street Artist Banksy. OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS. Adam Void. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OWS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
<<>>><><<>BSA<<>>><<<>><><BSA<<>>><><<>BSA<<>>><<<>><><BSA
Please note: All content including images and text are © BrooklynStreetArt.com, unless otherwise noted. We like sharing BSA content for non-commercial purposes as long as you credit the photographer(s) and BSA, include a link to the original article URL and do not remove the photographer’s name from the .jpg file. Otherwise, please refrain from re-posting. Thanks!
<<>>><><<>BSA<<>>><<<>><><BSA<<>>><><<>BSA<<>>><<<>><><BSA
Other Articles You May Like from BSA:
Museum of Graffiti Unveils "A Mouthful of Crome": A Reflective Exhibition on the Evolution of a Graffiti Legend. Crome (image courtesy of the Museum of Graffiti) Set to debut on March 5 at ...
Five Instagram Accounts Picked to Win There are SO many avid and creative fans of Banksy on Instagram it's pretty astounding. If you look through all of the feeds from the folks who tagged #BSABlackF...
Montreal's Stikki Peaches wonders what would it be like if art ruled the world and we were shocked to learn that it doesn't. Although if the last few days of art fairs are to be relied upon for global...
The last time we talked about the Italian artist Elfo he was playing with Duchamp and ranting about fake news – in his lo-fi anti-style text rolled across a wall. As is his style, the Italian text ma...
Here's a quick shot from Hemlock Alley in San Francisco as Steel pays an explosive tribute to Nekst and the talented tattooist Lango lets the crimson power flow like a system of veins waving like flam...