Used chewing gum is somewhat vulgar , but after it has been abandoned on the pavement , it eventually becomes part of the street , unseen and forget . British artist Ben Wilson manage to institute attention back to that squish spell of gumwood by making it something new .
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Since 2004
, he has been paint miniature scenes onto the pieces of forgotten gum that tune city sidewalk . The brightly gloss works of nontextual matter make it impossible to ignore . Wilson likes this strange medium because it take something disgusting and make it interesting . He ca n’t get in any trouble for vandalism because he ’s paint mightily on the chewing gum , not the street . " If you could take something that was throw away and make it into something else , it ’s exciting , " Wilsontold theBBC .
To make these petite paintings , Wilson first finds a peculiarly old piece with no moisture result in it . Then he fire up it up and covers it with a lacquer ; this way the graphics wo n’t melt in the hot weather .
Wilson has a lot of fans and takes commissions . The Royal Society of Chemistry even requested paintings of the 118 known chemical element . Recently , his work was featured in an display atThe Gallery at Munro House in Leeds , England . " With the request mass open up and unwrap something about their lives — I am still quite astounded about the way it materialise . It allows people to reverberate aspects of their lives , " WilsontoldWallflower Dispatches .
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