Swoon: Cut and Paste
Blossoming from the surrounding urban decay, Swoon, Brooklyn’s street art prodigy, is far more complex than your average poster maker, stencil artist, or sticker fiend. Her meticulously crafted, hand cut posters reveal sobering glimpses of humanity, set against the claustrophobic backdrop of metropolitan life. And for the uninitiated, stumbling across Swoon’s handiwork in-person can be downright enchanting.
“Wait a minute, did you do this?” a nearby homeless man asks,
Originally published in the October 2008 issue of Straight No Chaser.
Article clipping included below.
Image (top): Caledonia Curry aka Swoon
Photograph by Sasha Maslov for The New York Times.
