i was so blind — Over and Over Project

I Was So Blind by Allan Espiritu is the second of three projects for the Barnes Foundation’s exhibition Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, on view February 25–May 22, 2017. The "mural" is made up of of 300, 8.5" x 11" posters, individually wheat pasted on a 20 x 14 foot facade at Bike N' Beans 1321 N Front St, Philadelphia, PA

As part of a larger series of works entitled Over and Over, Espiritu uses pop lyrics to explore ideas of psychological control and the aesthetics of desire, consumption, and saturation. The works avoid traditional pictorial representation, instead choosing language and typography as the mode of expression while visually referencing the over-saturated, repetitively abundant American pop culture landscape that bombards people everyday. Pop lyrics are the central image and taken out of context speak no longer speak of bubbly, all consuming first love, but reference a love of a different kind—of the media and consumerism.

https://personofthecrowd.org/

Photo Credit: Eric Sison Photography

Over and Over Project: I was Blind — Bike and Beans Time Lapse

Over and Over Project: I was Blind — Bike and Beans Time Lapse

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