Keith Haring mural on 21st Street near Washington Ave. Haring came to Philly and worked with the city kids to produce this enduring homage to childhood.
Artist working on the new mural on Spruce near Juniper. DoN will research who the muralist is but the level of design, execution and location provides a feeling of good will and community. There’s a huge new mural at 25th and Oregon that wraps around the Shoprite building with a theme of abundance and living off the land.
In Philip Dick’s dystopian future sci-fi classic, Dr. Bloodmoney, Happy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers trundles around in a wagon pulled by a donkey and gleans from the post-nuclear highway with his robotic prothetic “arms”. Yow! takes DoN to that future place when transmogrified beings wander Earth looking for charms, spells and spare mother-boards. Tapping into the zeitgeist that trash is future treasure, these dolls represent the Apocalypse that has already happened all around DoN is slo-mo without him really noticing. Dolls of the Apolalypse incorporate actual Barbie Doll body parts – using a terrific technique, Yow! tricks the eye into believing the work is cast metal. Plastic is the new Apocalypse.
Burnell Yow!, Dolls of the Apocalypse in The Philadelphia Dumpster Diver Show @ Outsider Folk Arts in Reading, PA.
