Street Artists: Jetsonorama

Jetsonorama by xomiele.

Street Artists: Jetsonorama

"Jetsonorama's story is pretty incredible, you see, he is a 55 years old doctor who has left his career and started wheat pasting water tanks with people portraits mainly from the Navajo community. It all started in the 1980's with the hip hop culture but he really changed his life after a sabbatical year in Brazil where he met some street artists that created a great impression on him. He calls this "The Art of the Rural".

La historia de Jetsonorama es bastante acojonante, el tío es un licenciado en medicina de 55 años que influenciado por la cultura del hip-hop de los 80 y sobre todo por un año sabático que pasó en Brasil donde conoció varios artistas urbanos decidió pasar a pegar carteles de gente en fachadas, sobre todo de personas de la comunidad de Navajos. El lo llama "El arte de lo rural".

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Fighting climate change in the Navajo Nation

Jetsonorama installs an image of photographer and artist Raechel Running. Photo by xomiele.

Fighting climate change in the Navajo Nation via Grist

"The original inhabitants of the land that is now the Navajo Nation knew something about writing on walls. Spend any amount of time kicking around this canyon country and you'll find symbols and images painted and etched into the stone. Though street art might seem like a similar art form, born from similar impulses generations later in cities such as New York and LA, finding it here in its modern form seems unlikely: You can drive for hours and see little sign of human life, save for an occasional passing pickup truck or a hogan tucked into the scrub."

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