CAKE
MAKING A PAINTING IN THE STUDIO CAN BE A BIT STIFLING AT TIMES. BUT WHEN YOU ADD THE STREET INSTALLATION ELEMENT TO IT, IT BEGINS TO BE THIS EXCITING AND URGENT WAY OF COMMUNICATING.
Artist Cake started expressing her creativity on the streets just after graduating in 2007. She describes the moment she started putting her art in the streets as an awakening one: ‘The second I did it, it became impossible to walk anywhere in New York without seeing works by all of these artists and I fell in love with the landscape graffiti and street art created.’
Her first experiences consisted of putting up stickers around Brooklyn, but after a couple of months she embraced wheat-pasting as her medium of choice. The practice of wheat-pasting allows Cake ...
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