I just caught a truly inspiring outdoor project going on in Los Angeles right now titled How Many Billboards? Art In Stead.
The basic idea of the project was to use small art to break up the dreary canvas of Los Angeles urban landscape. In this case, the monotony being the thousands of billboards that Los Angeles houses. The MAK Center for Art and Architecture set up the outdoor exhibition and commissioned 21 artists to explore Billboards as a canvas for their work.
“The streets of Los Angeles become the walls of the exhibition, and the city itself becomes a large museum,”
Hollis Brown Thornton Q+A
1. Hi Hollis. Where do you live? What do you like about it?
I live in Aiken, SC, which is also where I grew up. I realized I physically need the climate in the South while living in Chicago. There is all kinds of plant and animal and bug activity during the warm and hot times of the year, just a general sense of vitality, that is motivating. But it is mainly the heat, being hot, sweating, spending 7 months out of the year wearing only shorts and flip flops. I’m just very productive in those conditions.
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