because everything is temporary

I have to send respect any time a good artist comes out of Denver.
[On a sidenote: The Denver wikipedia entry gave me a whole new view of this fair city.]
[And, on a totally unrelated note: I learned something new today: the word 'draw' is an acronym for Direct Read After Write. It blew my mind.]

Back to business: The Contemporary Art world right now is much more accessible than ever before, but also even harder to be new in. Yet some ideas still fine a way to stick, pun intended. Magnet Mafia is a movement of street artists (born from the metro area) who use magnets as their mode of mark making. Magnet Mafia creates all kinds of messages on their magnets, then they post it on any metal surface throughout the city. When I first met the Mafia, I was skeptical about the magnet idea, it seemed 'flimsy.' Needless to say, I changed my mind. Magnets can be moved from place to place, unlike stickers. It's the ideal participatory street art out there, because the audience member is an equally big player in the process; anyone walking down the street can change the meaning by placing it on a new object. And if people want to write or draw the magnets, they create even more meaning.

Plus who doesn't want 'artistically-thoughtful-and-yet-ironic-decorated-fridge' status? I know I always check people's fridges when I visit their house for the first time.



They even came to my school to let us play with great rolls of magnets, and were super chill. It was a blasty blast.

There is still hope!