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Thursday, August 15, 2024

In the Begining, “The Call to Share My Work as Street Art”

In the year 2006,

I had a life experience that forever change who "I Am"...

On July 4th, 2006, at three different times during the day, I was so close to being murdered, in my own home, nothing did happened to me, and the only explanation that I can come up with is of having a “Divine Intervention” thanks to the countless prayers from my mother to San Judas Tadeo, My Mother's Patron... Nothing happened to me.

But this experience made me See the “Wrong Paths” I had chosen, in order for Me, to Do what I wanted to do in My Life, and I realized that if I had DIED that day, (July 4, 2006), NOBODY would had ever known that I was a Great Artist... and that thought fill me with So much Sadness that it Activated from the depth of my Soul, the Mantra, Papavish OM Levinar… Actua CREA Plasma... Act CREATE Manifest…

I will try to keep the sequence of events as Truthful in (Dateline) as it happen. the video below is a (Little Preview I Love) of one of the Installation of Stickers.

Circa 2008 (Old San Juan) Puerto Rico by ArJeiEmSi.

In the year 2006, I decided to share my works of art as Street Art Sticker Compositions, this is one of my earlier pieces I did in the back of a trash can right across the Instituto de Cultura (Culture Institute) of Puerto Rico. A spot that got a lot of visibility, I would go back to document the decay of the stickers over time. I also started to share my work in YouTube of the different kinds of works I created over the years.

So I started documenting all my Work, Sketchbooks, Paintings, Photos, all my life ... and I have been putting them in the Street as installations of Stickers, and Posters...

Time Is Art...

and what You Do with Your Time Is Your Art...

ArJeiEmSi.

I will try to show in this post the Experiences

I had documented as a Street Artist in San Juan, Puerto Rico. From 2006-2017.

I had to leave the Island after the Devastating Hurricanes (2017)

Irma and Maria, (2) Category (4) Hurricanes that past one after the other in a span of (2) weeks. The second of which (Maria) completely Devastated the island collapsing all infrastructure, Electricity and Water for some parts of Puerto Rico up to (1 year).

Where I was living in Santurce. By the time I left in December of 2017 we had been without Electricity for (60) days and it did not look like it was getting any better. The water was able to be restored after about 3 weeks after the event. I will be posting Videos and Photographs, in later posts, of what was that like as an Experience.

For Now I need to organized the content of the blog, and keep the post limited to Subject Matter, ways I create my Artworks, My Story, and videos and photos I have taken over the years, of things I find Interesting, Insights with Life Experiences I have had.

Papavish OM Levinar… Actua CREA Plasma... Act CREATE Manifest…

by ArJeiEmSi.

This was My Very First Piece of Street Art,

I printed a Series of around (860) Stickers of Various Sizes (18) of them 17" x 28" (300) 6"x11"

Wheat Paste Installations in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico by ArJeiEmSi.

circa 2007.

Time Is Art...

and what You Do with Your Time Is Your Art...

ArJeiEmSi.

This was a Menu to the section on Street Art (Mentors) I did back in (2008)

I will be showing Videos of the DVD I created of my works back in (2008) Once I finish up organizing my files.

In The Following Videos I SHOW

My Biggest Influences in my decision of putting my work on the streets, I had (3) Major Influences.

(1) Shepard Fairey (Obey Giant),

(2) Bansy (UK),

(3) Os Gemeos (Brazil)

I will dedicate some text in this post to do my proper Tribute to them

eventually I will move the information from here to a new post where

I can develop and individual post for each of them. for now I will be sharing my experiences with this artists and why do I lilke them so much.

OBEY GIANT...Tribute by ArJeiEmSi.

Music: DJ Krush "Sun Is Shining"

Banksy Tribute by ArJeiEmSi

Time Is Art...

and what You Do with Your Time Is Your Art...

ArJeiEmSi.

I will post it again because I Really Love the combination of the Music "Commentary"

Jim Turq. (Street Art Stickers) by ArJeiEmSi.

Jim (Street Art) Turq. by ArJeiEmSi.

For the first few years I created the stickers myself, and this is one of the sheets I would print, then I would have to cut to size the different sizes, but that would allow me to do different types of Compositions according to place and size.

Time Is Art...

and what You Do with Your Time Is Your Art...

ArJeiEmSi.

Friday, August 7, 2020

(Street Art TOTEM) Wheat Paste In Action_Papavish OM Levinar by ArJeiEmSi

This is the Type of Work I Create as Street Art.

(Street Art TOTEM) This was "One" of the Best Occasions to do my work. This piece was Created in what it use to be a Public Telephone, next to the Museum of Puerto Rico. I created a Series of (7-8) Installations in Santurce, Calle Del Parque, Ponce de Leon. I will be posting Photographs and additional videos to show, the different pieces and the process of creation. At the same time I will be sharing the stories behind the pieces and reactions I have gotten from my work.

Each one of my Posts are Design to show the Different Aspects of the work I do. The Most Important aspect of what I do is to Document Everything I do, and I have been Documenting the amount of works and different projects I have created over the years.

I will try not to jump around to much and try to create posts in the chronological order in which the event (experiences) happened.

During this installation there was a Police car that stop right to me, tottaly parking in a spot that was going against his traffic, I got a little Nervous, because of my previous encounters with police officers.

Just a Note, this was the first time I Wheat Pasted my Posters in

Full Color (Before I had friction with other officers because I was uing Black & White Photocopies of my work and it looked dark and ugly)

But this Time they Ask... What Are You Doing???

and I Responded...

"I Am Sharing My Artworks with the World and this (Telephone TOTEM) seem a little abandoned, so I decided to make it a little more Beautiful"

and They Responded...

It Looks Beautiful...

both of them giving me their Thumbs Up!

Keep it Up!

and in essence becoming a (Bona-Fide) Street Artist in San Juan Puerto Rico right at that moment.

You can check the whole sequence of Photos in My ArJeiEmSi Design, (Fan Page) link below

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.139757806038345&type=3