Navajo Street Art
January 12, 2011
A few weeks ago I went on an epic road trip down to Mexico and I had the good fortune of stumbling onto these awesome wheatpastes while driving through the Navajo reservations in northern Arizona. I found out they are by a Navajo artist who goes by the name Jetsonorama, and I saw them pasted all over the abandoned buildings, water towers, shanties, signs, etc. out in the desert. It was really interesting to see street art placed in a rural context like this, and they created quite an impact by monumentalizing the people of the native american community.
You can see more of his work at – http://speakingloudandsayingnothing.blogspot.com – which is very reminiscent of the prolific artwork of French wheatpaste artist JR – http://www.jr-art.net
The artist is not a Navajo–he’s a Tuba City-based doctor who works on the reservation…
From what I researched about him online I assumed he was Navajo, my apologies.
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Loving this stuff. It’s interesting to see wheat pastes in that open of an environment.
Agreed Jason. It totally changes the feel of the wheat pasting. The size helps a lot with how dramatic it is.