About Face: Look Me in the Eyes
by We see the world from behind a face, and our face is what the world sees first.
Cyber Face
Has anybody seen Banksy around lately? Banksy is an anonymous graffiti artist whose full and true identity is really unknown. His street art however, is well known. Satirical representations of everyday life and situations stenciled upon public property have become the ultimate Killroy Was Here, which is another famous image-icon ranging from WW II through the Korean War era.
Bansky art is valuable, often his fans rush to sites where new work of his appears. Often, it is removed by public officials but there are several of his works that, by public demand, have been permitted to remain. Wiki tells that enterprising auctioneers have attempted to sell genuine Bansky art in~situ, and leave the problem of its removal entirely to the purchaser. –Hey, -wanna buy a bridge?
If you have a statue in the city center, you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. -But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you’ve made your own sculpture.
—Banksy
About Face
This could be art after the fact but it entails a certain rigor that suggests it is could be meant for the illiterate. A similar thing is done if Africa for packaged/canned/bottled foods because of the illiteracy rate. There, it was a common practice to place mainly just images of the product that it contains on the outside of the jar/bottle, etc. to assist those whom could not read.
This was especially helpful for foreign products such as Gerber baby food products to bridge the immediate language barrier. It is also the reason Gerber Foods for Babies sold very poorly in Africa initially. Gerber products feature the prominent Corporate Logo caricature, -a happy baby’s face. It was feared by the illiterate and uninformed that the product contained babies and the rumor spread! Seriously! The marketing shortcoming was rectified quickly replaced with more prominent images of the contents instead.
Face in the Paint?
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