Check these rad stickers made by Ian Cozzens and Meg Powers from Providence. They handed them out at the Providence Pride parade:
High res printable version
High res printable version
I’ve been a big fan of Ian’s work since we met on Bookmobile tour in like 2005, and I love seeing what he’s up to lately:
There’s something to be written about making things that are evidence of our existences in the world, that just go into the world & become part of it & our lives are built out of and around them. I’m pretty sure that’s the role my posters & prints have always played since I started making poster-type images maybe 17 years ago. (The image I am tracing this back to can be seen at the bottom of this post. 1995! Senior year of high school! Aaahhh!)
I don’t know what to say about it exactly. I LOVE making things that become objects in the world, it’s deeply important to me to see things I’ve made become integral to people’s understandings of themselves, it’s always a privilege and an honor. More recently, though, that feeling is surrounded & hemmed in by serious frustration about not being able to set time aside to make art that might not have a literal “meaning”, always feeling like my art has to have a meaning for other people. I am pretty sure that I’m discounting my own existence and *forcing* things into meaningfulness for others because of the satisfaction that comes when other people tell me that something I made means a lot to them.
See more of Ian’s incredible prints and other work here. Now go make some stickers, dammit.
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