THE CRYSTAL BRILLIANCE MANIFESTO
THE NEW MURALISM RESIDES IN THE HIDDEN WORLDS OF THE GHOST, THE TWIN:
I AND I, ONE SAYS TO THE OTHER “NO MAN SEES MY FACE AND LIVES”
THIS FORM OF MURALISM TRANSFORMS THE BUILDING INTO A CRYSTAL. THE EXTERIOR BECOMES A STRANGE REFRACTIVE SUFACE, ABSORBING ALL THE SUNDRY STRANGENESS AND NOISE OF PASSING OCCURENCES AND TRANSMITTING, IN A LUMINOUS EXCHANGE, A KALEIDOSCOPIC TRANSLATION OF ALL THAT BREATHES AROUND IT.
SEEK TO REINTERPRET THE FLATNESS OF THE BUILDING, PLOW THROUGH THE PICTURE PLANE AND DISTURB THE FAÇADE WITH OPTICAL TRICKS AND DISTORTIONS. EMPHASIZE THE FLATNESS OF THE BUILDING AS WELL AS THE ILLUSIONISTIC NATURE OF THE ROUNDNESS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE TAKEN FOR GRANTED WHILE BEING BURIED BY YOUR TRAINING/DESIRE.
TRANSFORM THE BUILDING INTO A CRYSTAL, INTO A MIRROR, TRANSFORM THE EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDING INTO AN INTERIOR SPACE (!), BUT PLEASE, TRANSFORM THAT BUILDING, CHANGE IT INTO SOMETHING ELSE. LUMINIZE IT.
THINK OF A MURAL DEDICATED TO DOUBLE VISION, TO SOUND, TO THE DEAD TWIN OF THE PUFF OF SMOKE THAT YOU RELEASED FROM YOUR LUNGS ONE NIGHT, TO THE LONG FADED TRAILS OF MOVEMENT LEFT BEHIND BY YOUR HANDS PUSHING INTO THE CONCRETE. SOUNDS SHOULD PASS THROUGH YOUR MIND ABOUT NOW, WOOSHES AND ABSTRACT NOISES AND FRACTAL LIKE GUFFAWS, HOOTS AND CAR HORNS. YOUR MURAL SHOULD REFLECT THE SOUND OF A VAN BREAKING YOUR SHOULDER, THE DRIVER NOT SEEING YOU IN THE NIGHT AS YOU WALKED ACROSS THE STREET, LOOKING FOR BLAND BUILDINGS TO MAKE INTO CRYSTALS AND MIRRORS.
GRAB THE FLEETING AND PUSH IT INTO THE MURAL FOLD ITS CONTENT AND ESSENCE INTO THE MIXTURE LIKE AN ICE CUBE INTO WATER VAPOR. PULL THE NIGHT EXPERIENCE INTO THE DAYTIME RIGORS OF WORKING ON THE SCAFFOLDING. BUILD A LENS OUT OF TWO OVERLAPPED CRYSTALLINE CUBES AND HOIST THEM INTO THE SKY TO BETTER FOCUS THE MOIST DARKNESS ONTO YOUR MURAL WALL DURING THE ARID DAY, LET THE SHADOW OF NIGHT FALL OVER YOUR EYES; PLEASE ALLOW THE HARDNESS OF THIS CRYSTAL VISION TO HARDEN YOUR OWN VISION.
THE NEW STREET PHOTOGRAPHY CONSISTS OF TWO ELEMENTS: BODY AND CAMERA
PARTICULAR DULLNESS OF SENSE IS FELT WHILE WALKING AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOU FIND YOURSELF IN. APPLY THIS BLUNTNESS, THE SUN BEATING YOUR BACK, FOREHEAD, EARS AND CHEEKS, TO YOUR PRACTICE. WALK TILL YOU FLOAT ON THE PAIN OF YOUR FATIGUE, NEVER STOP FEELING YOUR ONE FOOT FALL IN FRONT OF YOUR OTHER, KEEPING AN ALTERNATING RHYTHM, PAIN AND DULLNESS, PAIN AND DULLNESS. ALSO ALTERNATE SPEED; FOOT AND WHEEL, FOOT AND WHEEL. WEAVE THE ALTERNATING SPEEDS AND SENSATIONS TOGETHER TO FORM A MESH LIKE OPTIC. THIS IS THE PRIMARY LENS TO SEE OUT OF. FEEL THE RAPID MOVEMENT BEHIND YOUR EYES, THOSE MECHANISMS THAT GUIDE YOUR SIMULTANEOUS HYPERACTIVITY AND LETHARGY. LISTEN TO THOSE MECHANICAL TICKS AND SEE THEM FOR WHAT THEY ARE: SHARDS OF GLASS, ABLE TO SLICE THROUGH THE MEMBRANE OF THE SIDEWALK AND THE CONCRETE THAT HAS BECOME YOUR OWN SKIN.
ENVISION THE CAMERA THAT YOU BEAT UP AND SWEAT ON THROUGHOUT YOUR JOURNEY. ITS LENS IS CRYING TEARS OF MILK, LIKE A MIRACULOUS SAINT. RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO CLEAN THE LENS, INSTEAD, LET THE MILK FLOW FROM YOUR EYES AS WELL, CLOUDING AND FATTENING THE MEMBRANE IF YOUR VISION.
THE NEW POSTER-MAKING TRADITION IS NOT NEW IN TECHNIQUE OR APPROACH.
EXECUTION OF THE TRADITION IS NOT ENTIRELY NEW EITHER, EXCEPT IN THE WAY THAT THIS POSTER MAKING TRADITION SEES THE POSTER AS A VOICE ON THE STREET- A FAST AND EPHEMERAL MARKER, A BLEEP THAT IS MULTIPLIED MANY TIMES OVER, AND ABOVE ALL- AN INSERTION OF A CONSCIOUSNESS, THE INSERTION OF AN EYE, MOUTH AND NOSE INTO THE LANDSCAPE. IN A BLIND CITYSCAPE, ILLUMINATE HIDDEN AILMENTS AND CURES, EVENTS AND MEMORIES, DREAMS AND TERRORS WITH YOUR SIGNAGE/POSTER- BRING THE EYE TO THE STREET. DESIGN THE POSTER TO INUNDATE THE SIDEWALK WITH SOUND, TEXTUAL AND VISUAL, BRING THE EAR OF THE STREET TO THE POSTER. LET YOUR POSTERS/IDEAS ROT IN THE STREET, FOLDED OVER SOGGY, MOLDY, LET THE EFFLUVIUM OF THEIR REINCORPORATION DROP THE NOSE ONTO THE STREETSCAPE LIKE A FAST FALLING FIST BREAKING THROUGH THE SOFT BARRIER OF SMOG OVER THIS CITY.
BE FURIOUSLY PRESENT AS THE POSTER MAKER/ DISTRIBUTOR, AND BECOME FAIRLY INTOXICATED BY THE ACT. KEEP COLLECTIONS ON HAND, NEVER LET THEM APPRECIATE IN VALUE- AND PUT THEM UP! TRANSFORM YOUR POSTERS INTO GIFTS- GIVE THEM AWAY GENEROUSLY.