How to Wheat-Paste Posters 🧵
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"Consider your safety and your privilege. “Don’t go out alone,” says Strandquist, who, as a 34-year-old white man, can poster the city in broad daylight with an impunity he knows won’t be extended to artists of color. Many of the group’s posters were put up with permission, but some are what he calls “uncommissioned.” Amplify the work and words of artists from the neighborhoods where you’re postering.
A wheat-pasted poster might be ripped down after an hour or slowly fade over a year. Think of the layered aesthetic of a collection of posters as an ongoing public conversation. “It’s a way for artists to respond to a crisis,” Strandquist says. “And help us imagine a better, more equitable world.”
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