I recently spent the month of September in downtown Honesdale, arriving through vacant office space. working on adding some paint to the downtown skyline.
This all came together with the help of Canaltown , The Honesdale Loft, forgotabout K & The Jadwin associates. I’ve wanted to evolve what started on canvas to the public space, and with these people I was able to do so with no constraints, no grants, no scaffold & no machinery. Just neighbors working together because of one’s playing matchmaker, some great onsite support & my extendable paint roller.
——>—–>—> Transport to Honesdale:—————-> ——-> —>
A funny thing happens when you change / merge the direction of traffic through a town. New rules of the road, new routines for foot traffic, less looking both ways before crossing & all of a sudden drivers have less places to look at while passing by. In our case southern facing walls become something now only seen by being on the streets or in our rear view mirrors. Funny thing is there’s a part of our society that hides in these shadowy rear view mirrors. Ones hiding within the darkness of these flowers. Poppy flowers. Opium creators. Things we know and agree on but aren’t talking about. Pharmaceutical formulas & how they behave with us, becoming blanket statements that we need to fine tune. I never want to see these taken from us. Maybe it’s not the plants, but us who are not using them correctly.. .
These are moments I will fight to never forget. It was great to get out of the terracotta castle I work in & spend some time on the rooftops in downtown Honesdale.
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After :
in-progress shots :
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