Video: Sugar Graffiti by Shelley Miller
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In order to be considered a street artist, it is not enough to stain the walls with a spray can of paint, it is necessary to bring something of your own, original, new to this art. I did it and Shelley Millerwhich creates street graffiti with help … Sahara!
Graffiti art has undergone major changes in recent years. Spray paint on walls and fences is a yesterday, the lot of inept people. Real Authors give birth to new forms, new directions of street painting. Examples include graffiti animation by Jo Peel, positive street art by Alice Pasquini, or dust paintings by Allison Cortson.
So the artist from Montreal Shelley Miller creates something that no one else has done before. At least in street art!
The fact is that Shelley Miller draws all her graffiti not with paint, but with sugar. Moreover, it can be both sweet cubes and frozen multicolored sugar icing - the artist alternates these materials, creating truly amazing street paintings!
Mostly, the topics of these works are focused on the history of the relevant industry - the cultivation of cane, the production of sugar from it, and the transportation of the product around the world.
Moreover, Shelley Miller draws these unusual graffiti in those places that were the center of the sugar industry in the past - in Brazil, Cuba, etc. The geography of the Quebec artist's works covers many countries of the world.
This is a paradox, but in those places that used to be centers of sugar production, residents now practically do not know this product - it is too expensive there. Therefore, it is not surprising that Shelley Miller's works are eventually eaten by the local population. True, this is one of the main goals that the artist sets for herself when creating her sugar graffiti - to bring sugar into the lives of people for whom it is a delicacy.
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