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Forget for a second that i usually complain that i see to many “wave your hand and see how the projected images are modified” projects (they might be beautiful but are not meaningful nor experimental enough for me). Here’s one such project that i actually find very neat:

We only come out at night is an urban graffiti project. A site is selected at dawn and a sticker is stuck or a stencil image is sprayed at the location. When night falls, the funny jellyfish character on the sticker is projected many times the sticker size onto the building.

The monsters float over people’s heads often changing their moods. When they are sad, the just float around, but when they are angry, they shoot out tenticles and grab passerby’s sillouettes and consume them, leaving only crumbs. The projector is placed in such a way that the pedestrians never see the source of the projection so the image appears almost out of no where. The sticker can be removed and the project visits another place at dawn. A website is created to track the history of the monster appearance in order to promote and create a mythology.

Video.

A work by Jiacong Yan.

See also: Sascha Pohflepp and Lisa Rave’s Reflective stencils; Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green and Richard The’s Parallel Worlds, Evan Roth’s Graffiti Analysis.

Originally from we make money not art on July 7, 2006, 6:09am