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by jwcurry. Ottawa, A Onion Printshop, 2o17.
homage: Eric Grice; an attempted proof on an abysmal surface consigned to the firewood pile & here burned in the same pit from which the initial flame leapt that provided the form for the stencil.
Eric, as "Go Fish", is generally acknowledged as being one of the earliest graffitists in Ottawa (though he will correctly assert that there was already work to be seen out there (P.Cob a very real possibility)). his Go Fish project was, i believe, a matter of both paintings & (shaped?) posters pasted up around town while still a teenager. little documentation of any part of this project is extant, though there're photographs of much more recent revisitations of the idea.
later, with a partner as "Puzzle", well over 1oo painted works of a remarkable variety of styles appeared sequestered around Ottawa on various surfaces in a numbered series (without being serial). few exist now but there is at least some photographic evidence.
these days, Eric is a sculptor (in Montréal) working primarily in wood & brick (see www.flickr.com/photos/79303856@N05/ for a sampling).
unquestionably, the Go Fish (i'm still unsure exactly how that should be written/spelled/punctuated) & Puzzle material was inspirational in many different ways to a sector of Ottawaän artists to follow, including but hardly limited to the Alpheratz crew, Berzerker, Never, Venus (Eric's sister, Nathalie) &, much later, "that Unwanted guy".
if this print'd've worked, i'd've nailed it up somewhere but the edging is smudgy & muddied, especially in its few (here indiscernible) details, so back to carbon it goes, swimming upflame, "cycles etc".
thanks for yr example, Eric!
go'fish o
by jwcurry. Ottawa, A Onion Printshop, 2o17.
homage: Eric Grice; an attempted proof on an abysmal surface consigned to the firewood pile & here burned in the same pit from which the initial flame leapt that provided the form for the stencil.
Eric, as "Go Fish", is generally acknowledged as being one of the earliest graffitists in Ottawa (though he will correctly assert that there was already work to be seen out there (P.Cob a very real possibility)). his Go Fish project was, i believe, a matter of both paintings & (shaped?) posters pasted up around town while still a teenager. little documentation of any part of this project is extant, though there're photographs of much more recent revisitations of the idea.
later, with a partner as "Puzzle", well over 1oo painted works of a remarkable variety of styles appeared sequestered around Ottawa on various surfaces in a numbered series (without being serial). few exist now but there is at least some photographic evidence.
these days, Eric is a sculptor (in Montréal) working primarily in wood & brick (see www.flickr.com/photos/79303856@N05/ for a sampling).
unquestionably, the Go Fish (i'm still unsure exactly how that should be written/spelled/punctuated) & Puzzle material was inspirational in many different ways to a sector of Ottawaän artists to follow, including but hardly limited to the Alpheratz crew, Berzerker, Never, Venus (Eric's sister, Nathalie) &, much later, "that Unwanted guy".
if this print'd've worked, i'd've nailed it up somewhere but the edging is smudgy & muddied, especially in its few (here indiscernible) details, so back to carbon it goes, swimming upflame, "cycles etc".
thanks for yr example, Eric!