Video: Sponge Jeff. Old Sponge World Maps by Jeffrey Allen Price
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
For an artist, finding his own style is an important task that even not all professionals can cope with. But the American Jeffrey Allen Price lucky in this regard. He has a "chip" thanks to which his work is becoming more and more popular in the world. He creates geographic Maps from … old sponges.
"Sponge" creativity is not something so original on our planet. Various artists, one way or another, have become familiar with it. An example of this statement is the paintings by Gregory Euclide, which the author draws with felt-tip pens and sponges on blackboards.
But Jeffrey Allen Price's work has a completely different origin and concept. Sponges are not a tool for creating paintings, but their direct parts.
Jeffrey Allen Price creates a variety of geographical maps from old sponges collected from familiar housewives and bought in a store. At the same time, he diligently carves out the contours of countries, regions and other subjects of geography in order to combine them with each other in large and holistic paintings.
Thus, Price created a map of the world, on which each of more than two hundred countries is separately highlighted, a map of the United States of America with all its parts, even Alaska and Hawaii.
Jeffrey Allen Price also has maps of individual countries and even the island of Manhattan with all its quarters.
“I came up with the idea of such creativity after I noticed that I have been using the same sponge for several years now. For me, she became an excellent metaphor for the attitude of the government of the United States of America towards the people of this country. Since then, every time I go to the store, I always go to the department for the sale of sponges and look out for their various colors and shapes, thinking about how to use all this when creating new works,”explains Jeffrey Allen Price.
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