Showing posts with label Migiwa Orimo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Migiwa Orimo. Show all posts

Friday, October 9, 2009

Public Art: What Is Public? What Is Private?

In the age of Twitter, social networks, YouTube,

surveillance and text messaging,

we are constantly transmitting, receiving and exchanging

our status at great distance with speed.

We are readily conditioned to view, and be viewed by,

thousands of anonymous others.

We have several hundred “faces” of

so-called friends on our desktop.

•••

This telephone booth

you are standing in

measures 32”x32”x80”.

It is designed for a single human body.

It is place-bound on a street corner.

It is not connected to

the Internet nor a phone-line.

What you experience here

is one-on-one.

Migiwa Orimo

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Poster/Two Deers Telephoning


This poster was inspired by Japanese advertising illustration from 1920's. It's hand painted. I'll make multiple prints for take-away cards.