Tuesday 29 July 2008

Mark Jenkins' human sculptures

 Washington DC  6/06
São Paulo 2007
New York 8/06

I would love to see how people have reacted when they have walked past these human sculptures! Street artist Mark Jenkins makes them out of tape and then dresses them and puts in public places. Sometimes you can tell or guess that it's not a real person.. for example the one with the man's face inside a wall! but these are all very clever!

He placed a sculpture that looked like a human in a horse costume in an area in Barcelona where there are a lot of street artists. Everyone assumed it was a performer staying very very still! And he was just sitting somewhere near it watching people give money to the 'performer'. Like he said, 'It's much easier to make pretend people than to pretend to be a sculpture all day.'


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