Art Basel MIA: Nat Ward YUMMY
At the SCOPE Art Fair I met an amazing artist, a photographer named Nat Ward. He took the picture of this blue gorilla in Lebanon, FL. And yes such a place does exist ad apparently it is next to Crackertown, FL where Nat had a mullet sandwich in a local cafe. Not kidding.
Anyhow he explained to me that the blue gorilla is in a series he is currently doing called Graceland. It originally started with Elvis and the real Graceland and documenting this side of Americano life. During the process of seeking out these Graceland stories the project began to take on a different sort of meaning. He was kind enough to take me through all of his images and I am looking forward to the catalog of the work so you can read each story that he told me about the pictures.
Written in the back of a taxi on my way to interview Shepard Fairey and Fab 5 Freddy about graffiti.
