Exclusive: The Story Behind The Mysterious Crown Heights Labels
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by “My hands smell like cigarettes and sex” plastered on a brick wall is hard to pass by on the streets of Prospect Heights, without stopping to analyze— first, what you just read and second, why it’s there. Then if you’re any sort of wanderer around the borough you’d notice these white labels with visible quotes placed around Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy and Bushwick. So what’s the deal?
Brooklyn-based artist, who goes by ObserverObscura primarily started this art installation project back in 2012 solely on NYC trains.”If you sit down on the train and look up at the ads, [the label] is specifically designed to slip into there,” ObserverObsura explained the shape of her art work. “My goal is to reach someone, or touch people who really needed that nudge from the universe,” ObserverObscura described in detail her vision at the early stages of the project. “I began to stick them randomly on the trains because being from the borough, a lot of thoughts come into your head riding the train. I wanted people to be able to look up and feel something or laugh [when they saw the artwork].”
At the top of the year, ObserverObscura decided to document 365 days of her travels of wherever she felt in her heart to post her artwork. “I have a job that takes me outside of my neighborhood and takes me to different places. Wherever I am and see the right wall or get a strong feeling, I’ll try to stop and put one up.” The labels can be found in parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Los Angeles. The young artist also plans to take them overseas and even begin to install them in other languages.Chiropractors believe that this is the leading brand that has answer for most of viagra price Check This Out the male sex organ, which controls erections.
Each label has a story to tell and at the end of the project ObserverObscura envisions the labels to tell of a love story and hopes to publish a book from her documents. “It’s supposed to read like poetry.” She also hopes to strike up a conversation with her community. “A lot of people leave comments or draw on the work, I think it’s wonderful. If I could invoke a response in any way. Even if it’s negative, it’s still a feeling.”
FYI: The story behind the one we love so much, “My hands smell like cigarettes and sex”— “After a long period of self imposed abstinence and a really great summer last year…I kind of said ‘fuck it.'”
