Nikki McClure
I cut my images from black paper with an X-Acto knife. Everything is connected. It is all one piece of paper, yet now it holds a story.
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I cut my images from black paper with an X-Acto knife. Everything is connected. It is all one piece of paper, yet now it holds a story.
General thanks to: @graffitiradical; @streetartutopia; @Emily_Lykos; and Brooklyn Street Art
Spinning: Nick Cave, Sarah Vaughan
California (thanks David Drexler)
North Carolina (just one; thanks Scott Speer)
Puerto Rico (just one)
Hijack (just one)
Niz in Austin, TX (thanks Adam K.)
Took long enough!
>NEW< Otist (FR)
Jeremy Novy at BRC
a John Fekner classic (thanks, Brooklyn Street Art)
Praxis (thanks, Brooklyn Street Art)
Voxxromana (thanks, Jeremy Novy)
I mainly draw people's faces with spray acrylic paint using a technique called stencil.
Thanks to: Esmeralda, Lynn
Spinning: Bowie, Beatles
Valencia St. (just one)
In the Mission (just one)
China Basin (just one)
Thanks to: Chris Benfield, Deborah, @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @GraffitiRadical, u/IogicaI, u/NastyNava
Spinning: Bowie
Jef Aerosol (just one)
Chuck Sperry cuts a stencil in France
Germany (just one)
Hamburg (just one)
Italy (just one)
Spain (just one)
In the UK
Thanks to: Jeremy Novy, @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @GraffitiRadical, u/IogicaI, u/NastyNava
Spinning: AC/DC; Jerry Garcia Band; Led Zeppelin; Bowie
>NEW< Hijack in NYC
Ancient hand stencils in Primal
A 2017 Burningman cut out
One in Sacramento
A few in Denver
One in Florida
Faile (just one)
A massive cut out from Logan Hicks
Voxx (just one)
Bogata (just one)
Toxicomano (just one)