This time last year I was invited to take part alongside 8 other European artists in China to create a large scale murals for Wallskar Festival in Nanxian.
Staying in a "small"city of about 9 million people who the majority of had never seen Europeans in the flesh, was a massive culture shock and the most amazing experience. Being followed by groups of people down the streets, selfies and asked to hold babies was the norm
The festival was around a 15 minute drive just outside of the city where a small rural village was being transformed into the festival site pretty much over night. Alongside all the buildings being painted there was live music and lots of food
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My main mural focused on 2017 being the year of the cockerall - One of the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac, the Rooster is a Chinese symbol of honesty, as well as physical and moral fortitude. It is of the yang attribute and signifies fortune, luck, fidelity, protection as well as bossiness.
After further research I found that when a red headed rooster is seen on a roof of a house it symbolises protection for the habitants of that house.
We spent a total of 5 days on site, creating artwork every where in this small village with people asking us to decorate their houses..dream come true!
Everybody i encountered were so humble and happy to welcome us to their country however i will not be able to drink rice wine ever again.
BONZAI- UK
SATR - CHINA
JOYS _ ITALY
SHEEP- CHINA
NEIST - FRANCE
MALAKAI- SPAIN
NEIST & ASEB - FRANCE
Very very cool! I love these co-working projects. SATR was last year as well here in Frankurt, Germany with a group of Chinese artists. They did some colaboration work with local sprayers and painted a nice huge mural under a bringe. Have a look here, I wrote something about the making of. The German shepard dog on the left is from SATR: http://www.feinripp.net/streetart/chinesischer-graffiti-besuch/
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Hey @vagablandler ! Thanks for the link I remember her talking about her trip to Europe last year she was really excited. Looks like a great event in Frankfurt ! Cheers
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Wow the art looks amazing!
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my fav pic here! Moar please!
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I love this
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Absolutely brilliant photographs, and a very, very well presented post! I'm Resteeming this & upvoting it at 100% !
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The art looks so amazing and stunning
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This is fantastic!!! Thanks Guys for resteeming!
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Epic!!
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The graphics are stunning bro
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What an epically awesome festival. Some really funky art created!
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