Paste Your Face: A Public Arts Project
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I've always thought it was strange to see large images of celebrities, models and news anchors on walls, billboards, and buses. I've wondered why these people are adorning our walls and public spaces instead of the individuals that make up our community. This project serves as a physical representation of the city of Portland through drawings of it's inhabitants.

Everyone pictured is completely unknowing and chosen at random. Whether your reaction is positive or negative, please let me know by clicking the "Submit" button at the top of the page or emailing me at pasteyourfaceproject@gmail.com.

I'm sorry or you're welcome, depending on how you feel about this.
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This is a genius idea dude, i recently did a project for college along the same lines of this, one of my inspirations was this Banksy quote-

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

My project was basically going into big corporate shop windows in my city centre and posing as a mannequin with some quotes/logos painted on my chest while my friend filmed it. 

Its excellent and re-assuring to see someone else do this type of art work outside of the gallery, trying to make a difference in the modern world to open its eyes or make it abit more beautiful. :¬)

Are you not worried about the repercussions of it though? i’d imagine the council/advertising people aren’t too pleased :¬D haha they weren’t with me X¬)

Have fun :¬] X




  1. mcchrystal reblogged this from pasteyourface and added:
    ask I wrote. I love this person’s idea.
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