Invisible, ephemeral, not street art in a usual sense of adding anything physical to the city. This is a network that exists only in the mind and in your own subjective resonance of a date, a place and its meaning…
This artistic project aims to stimulate perception: how to look at a city, create a subjective view. To find your own personal resonance in a playful way in the psychogeography of a place that everyone knows. To see what you did not see and what is not there, to enjoy the meaning of the "found object". To think, to find your own personal meaning within the playground of the everyday, commodity, utilitarian structures that we live in.
As inspiration and references: Raymond Queneau’s "Pierrot mon ami" with its playful yet meaningful structuralism and significance, Andre Breton's "Nadja" with psychogeography and meaning, the “hasard objectif” and personal resonance of seeming coincidence and discovery, Roland Barthe's "Mythologies" which finds poetry in the everyday and mundane object, institutions in themselves; On Kawara's concept of time and marking it, with his postcards series; Marcel Duchamp and the found object, perception and the game.
This phenomenon is fairly intrinsic to Paris: cities rarely have the day and month stamped into the pavement.
Paris has one of the most dense and old underground networks of utilities in any major world city. When utility companies open up pavements to repair or access infrastructure (e.g., electrical conduits, gas, telecom, water), they repair the surface with new asphalt or tar. Each utility company uses distinctive stamps to show when the work was done. This prevents overlap and helps coordinate maintenance without cross-interference.
If it helps to see things in a new way, why not: some meaning and poetry in the everyday.
...art school in Paris, studied French literature, lived in Paris and hope to see things in a different light.
