Since we are presenting our ideas on Friday, reckon I better get freezing some ideas - not something I do very well... Anyway, though I might summerise some directions on here by way of sorting my head out...
Concept 1 - The Haring Line
Following on from the Nick Walker inspired stuff, still thinking about causing visual anarchy of sorts in Portland Place, in homage to Keith Haring's style.
Using the analogy of bombing Portland place to create distortion. Quite like the metaphor of an impact causing a rippling disturbance, some kind of movement, a 3 dimensional wave - like Mr Banksy...
From horizontal to vertical.
Haring's line could move from horizontal to vertical and even from above to below ground, positive to negative. This positive/negative concept is something that I keep coming back to. Initially it was about the traffic flow in Portland Place, but now it is more about what lies beneath? A question developed from looking at all the closed, official facades along PP.
Revealing what is beneath - scratching the surface.
What might be beyond... Courtesy of Banksy again. Ramallah checkpoint, Palestine.
On a Banksy tip again - the positive and negative of stencil and aerosol. Literally stenciling the Haring line in the road...
Answering the question about what's beneath... Using the box junction as a stencil. Urban jungle beneath - contrasting
the stuffy, sophistication above. Like the idea of taking the design
concept into the subterranean, from above to underground
Understanding Haring's linear expression and looking at street art in the urban environment today, there is a commonality that is, for me, about spontaneity of mark making. Making marks on the street is about high impact, bold message applied with speed and fluidity - weather it be Haring's free-flowing hand drawn lines or Banksy's stencils.
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Underground, where it all started for Haring with his subway chalk drawings.
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