Break Glass - Freedom

Size: 30 x 32 x 10cm (11,8 x 12,5 x 4 inches) 

Red box: Mild steel, Duco Paint, Glass, Vinyl, Hammer, Montana hardcore spray paint, Aluminium stencil

Edition: 47

Year: 2021.

Price does not include VAT

BREAK GLASS BOX

About 20 years ago, I conceptualised an artwork based on temptation.

The idea was simple: draw one of my artworks onto a canvas, then place the canvas, some paint and brushes inside a glass box as a kind of “Colour by Numbers” artwork. Everything you needed to complete the painting was right there in front of you.

You could break the glass and complete the painting, but in doing so, you would destroy the artwork itself.

You weren’t supposed to. That was the point.

Years later, in 2019, I visited Wiesbaden in Germany, where I came across a graffiti festival that inspired me to start my own Graffiti Series back in South Africa.

Three years later, while on site doing a graffiti installation, I spotted a red BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY fire box and suddenly joined the dots.

Why not take my original idea and reinvent it in graffiti form?

A spray can.
A stencil.
A hammer.

All locked behind glass.

You can break the glass, take out the spray can and stencil, and complete the artwork.

But should you?

And so, BREAK GLASS BOX was born.

I decided to produce just 47 editions.

The temptation is yours.