Sticker Art
When I was little, I had a little sticker album where I'd save special stickers that my relatives sent me from America. I never used those sticker strips but still have that album somewhere, hoarding dust, in my attic in Bombay. The glue has probably dried out and the glitter off the shiny stickers must have faded. Although the 3D disco stickers should still be intact.
I think collecting stickers and stamps is a phase most teens go through. But the last time I checked, no one was collecting food-stickers.
Incredibly patient Barry Synder has an odd hobby and a unique mission. He collects food stickers, the teeny green, blue and red kinds that are stuck on Chiquita bananas or the green apples and on practically every product in the produce section. He creates mosaic-style art work out of these stickers! (Now I feel silly for making a shrine out of my stickers instead of getting creative with them!)
Each piece takes anywhere from 3 to 5 months for completion and the orginals (if sold) would begin at $10,000 each!
Synder has also started a Save Our Stickers (S.O.S) foundation via which he encourages others to save their food stickers and use them as artwork or mail them to him.
Amazing, innit?
I am trying to research this gentleman "Barry Snyder" who i feel has these wonderful creative ideas I recently watched an episode on food network and I am totally intrigued please let me know where I can find any kind of information on his work. Does he have a website?
Posted by: Carly | August 08, 2007 at 08:21 PM
I want to send this guy some stickers, but I cannot find a website or anything of that sort. Please help!
Posted by: Andrea | October 05, 2007 at 10:08 AM
Here I am!
www.stickermanproduceart.wordpress.com
Posted by: Barry Snyder | January 27, 2008 at 11:55 PM
Here I am!
www.stickermanproduceart.wordpress.com
Posted by: Barry Snyder | January 27, 2008 at 11:55 PM