Chronic Art: Making Amazing Mosaics From Roach Papers (dialup warning)

[rcrush]

http://www.disinfo.com/2009/12/chronic-art-making-amazing-mosaics-from-roach-papers/

Steve Elliott writes on Toke of the Town:

Cliff Maynard of Pittsburgh has blazed a unique trail on the stoner art scene. The 37-year-old creates amazing mosaics using the humble medium of used roach papers from smoked joints.

Amazingly, this is just something Cliff does in his spare time. He’s one of Pittsburgh’s finest tattoo artists at his day job. But it’s his roach paper Chronic Art that has captured the imagination of folks nationwide.

As a student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Cliff had the opportunity to take inspiration from the great mosaics of the past. “I was studying mosaics in school,” Maynard remembers. “I just remember sort of making this connection in my head between the tiles and roach papers.”

His roach paper portraits include iconic rock star stoners like Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia, and John Lennon, and hemped hop rap stars like Snoop Dogg and Method Man.


And heres some of the pictures from his myspace page. http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=393200578&albumId=1328600

He also has a lot more on his picture section on myspace. Its pretty cool.

[mdmc]

1. very cool

[Forkboy]

2. Holy Fuck!

This man is clearly a genius, like my friend who could make origami dragons out of peeled off beer labels!

And to think, when I get high all I do is look at the remaining roach and go, "Whoa."

[Ghost in the Machine]

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I can sure as hell kick it, though..

Very cool! Thanks for posting...


Peace,

Ghost

[leftstreet]

4. Awesome!

[drm604]

5. Are these works considered to be an illegal substance?

I'm not saying that they should be, just wondering if this guy could bring some trouble on himself by publicly displaying them.

I should add that the man is a genius.

[rcrush]

6. What if like Bill Gates bought one of those guys paints and then made joints out of it

[cliffordu]

7. You could smoke those and.....

[reggie the dog]

8. far out

[rcrush]

9. .