(ABM) A Beautiful Mess

Seeing beauty in what one would call trash: The mess of garbage, bums, homeless.

 It’s seeing the contributions and inspirational impact that random street objects and people have on our creative process and ideas which we dig into our subconscious and regurgitate the ideas we saw in passing in a remixed form.

Multi layers of Stories are told in passing every day and night as unwanted objects are gifted to the streets, a fusion of colors and patterns are on display and are constantly rearranged when the wind blows or when some subtle shift happens and the re curation of the unintentional installation happens. 

 Compositions and arrangements are happening as we give and take to street collectables. We collect visual gifts on our daily travels and bottle up what we sometimes call ugly or inconvenient, we then, not realizing that we’re injecting the elements of beauty from what we despised from the streets in our designs, dress codes, home décor, art and conversation rarely connecting the dots and relation to the in passing influences of unwanted street objects and under appreciated people.

This impromptu installation of mannequins in the streets of Brooklyn. (6th street between 4th and 5th ave.) Illustrates the story of found objects and the power an art installation. Watching people interact with this installation was as exciting as photographing it. The mannequins were conversing with each other. They each had their own character. And they fell into their own world and created a narrative that was exciting to the people on the street and intriguing in the photographs. Their original purpose …

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Fulani Hart