Kikuo Johnson's Perennial

 

R. Kikuo Johnson - Perennial

In New Yorker Cover Story feature.

Part of the inspiration is about the punchline—the plastic bags that end up in city trees. There’s a painter’s drop cloth that has been stuck high in a tree on my block in Bed-Stuy for the past year. I ignored it for months, mentally filing it with the rest of the litter on the street. But, over time, the colorful splatters of paint on the olive-green fabric began to look intentional. Now, every time I step out of my building, I look up to check how the canvas is hung. As the spring foliage fills in, our Jackson Pollock is slowly becoming an Andy Goldsworthy.

Here's another blog post on a previous NYer cover called "Double-Parked" by Kikuo Johnson.