In the pre-development stages of a new site/application I’m working on called, Hifidelics, I was doing a lot of research on Fluxus art. I really like what it stands for – a DIY, counter-culture to traditional/commercial art. I wanted to incorporate that Fluxus spirit into a new way of releasing great music to the public. Although ‘Hifidelics’ is currently incomplete and not really open to the public quite yet, Fluxus is and will continue to remain influential in it’s future progress.
During this time of Fluxus research I had the pleasure of viewing a lot of beautiful artwork from both the past and present. It really began to inspire me. Although I’ve had a ton of ideas over the years I really haven’t touched any real art project since high school. Since you don’t need to be an artistic genius to participate in Fluxus, I figured now would be a perfect time to release some of that creativity I’ve blocked for so many years. I wasn’t sure where to begin, but I began to think of patterns I liked. For some reason barcodes popped into my mind. I started to cut-out the barcodes from consumable products, not really sure where I was going to go with that.
Back in the earlier part of the past decade, as a joke my parents gave me a life-sized mannequin of Spiderman, used as a promo toll for the first ‘Spiderman’ movie. They stumbled upon it at some resale shop in Chicago and thought it would be funny to give to me, since I was a HUGE Spiderman fan when I was a kid. So I began thinking that maybe I could do something with that. Somewhere in there I combined Spidey with the barcodes and had an idea – completely covering him with the barcode cut-outs. In a way, a form of decoupage (something else I never really knew anything about until I began this project).
Is this a cool idea? I have no idea. I’m just kind of going wherever it will take me. I was aware that this would take me a while, but wow! – it’s taking a lot more time than I thought. Oh well, no rush. Here’s my progress so far…
