Process

Because of my personal connection to street art, I knew I wanted to pursue it in some way for this project. There are a lot of forms of street art, including markers, stencils, and wheat pasting. Of all these forms, stencils are the most publicly accessible since they don't require mixing paste, or drawing from hand. An individual only needs to take a stencil someone else made and spray paint it on something. 

While I felt I could create something cool as a wheat-paste poster, my objective for this project was to create something any idiot can and would use, so I wanted to limit my creations to single-sheet, single-color stencils. 

I started by brainstorming recognizable works by graffiti artists as well as pop-culture references and put them together. My initial idea was rather simple, using Grumpy Cat and the Obey mantra.