Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
[W. H. Auden]

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Grimy Talents

Portraits comprised of jelly beans, murals graffitied onto downtown walls, optical illusions created on sidewalks with chalk--seems like everything has been done. So what's an artist itching for groundbreaking expression to do? Well, if that artist is Scott Wade, the answer is simple: Scrape a picture into your friends' dirty rear windows.















What better canvas than glass? What better paint than dirt, grime, and bug guts? And what better advertisement than a car?