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Perspectives - The Creation Project - by Jonathan McSparran

While the Creation Project is certainly an advocate of public art, it has set itself up as a staunch opponent of vandalism, which discredits other kinds of public art as an important medium. The use of materials like chalks and temporary paints, as well as using alternative methods such as polystyrene cut-outs and vertical shadow projections up the sides of buildings, is central to the group's dedication to making their works non-permanent.

 

Their works
are non-
permanent

 

“we take
photos of our
work, and
that's it”

A newly favored method of the Project is a return to their roots of subverting the efforts of advertisers. By procuring a key to one of the rotating advertising kiosks in the center of Prague's Old Town, they are able to replace one of the large advertisements with a piece of their work, reclaiming a piece of public visual space in one of the busiest parts of the city. “We're not marking [the space],” says Wilmer, “we take photos of our work, and that's it [...]. That's the permanent part.”

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