Drawing with Stefan Meier
This month ‘the heart project” hosts live drawing sessions with Stefan Meier and special guest, Studio Hash! Initially done as a live stream over Twitch, this ephemeral content is captured in the preview clip linked above. We dive into notions of traditional art and NFTs, alternative materials, time travel, & friendship as we draw on up-cycled pizza boxes, a preferred medium of mine. :)
I typically source pizza boxes as a found material in my work as they tend to represent many charged ideas. Not only are they sources from my immediate landscape and companies involved in the act of “making” but they also convey concepts around the material itself, such as supply chain & sustainability. The pizza box is hugely tied to my childhood as it is for many, a comfort food of choice that at points boarders on addiction. Partly nostalgic, partly overly-indulgent this art material is ripe with meaning and innuendo.
You can see the boxes produced on this broadcast below. To the left one that I did featuring my “heart” nft character jump-roping away from a California Grizzly towards a multicolored porsche (all attributes influenced by suggestions from a live virtual audience.) To the right we have a box by Stefan Meier depicting a dope dino silhouette as it looms over the world and info specs from Domino’s. This exercise in creative intuition and community collaboration challenges previously isolate ideas of an artist and offers insight into the role art can play as social conduit.
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