Earlier this week,
NKO started work on a site-specific mural painting for the 10th ave. section of the Red Wall. At 220'x24', the project will be one of the largest murals in the city. Entitled "The Architecture of Endlessness", the artist envisions "an abstract mural based on drawings inspired by the
surrounding architecture and structures incorporating geometric forms
and typography depicting the words endless, never forever, always, and
new mystics".
"NKO is a Seattle-based semiotician, visual and performance artist, curator,
designer and chef. He works as an art director and managing director for
experimental theatre companies Saint Genet and Implied Violence, and
is co-founder of Free Sheep Foundation, Black Sheep Book Arts and New
Mystics. NKO has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally
working between Seattle, New York, and Europe.
The failure of
language, of communication, is often the premise of NKO’s work; things
that are misheard, mumbled, whispered, spoken through broken teeth and
bleeding tongues. He is deeply influenced by the writings of George
Bataille and Jean Genet."
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| photos by dk pan |
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| photo by kelly o |
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