White figures: a meditation on light

Meditation on light by Jerome Mesnager

The graceful human figures are produced by graffiti artist Jerome Mesnager. It is said that Mesnager’s white figure emerged from a meditation on light. The consistently-rendered figures are read in the same way as a stencil, which at first I thought they were, but they are all drawn free-hand.
His white spectral figures meander the streets of Paris at night, climbing, cavorting, dining, dancing, loving but leaving a distinctive imprint on doors and walls. I read an interview with Jerome Mesnager published in a recent copy of an avant-garde art periodical. When asked as to his methods of producing the elegant graffiti, he stated, “When I find the right door or wall, everything goes fast. I jump against the wall in the pose I want to represent and I paint very fast. It takes 26 seconds.” Wow, I honestly would love to see that!

From metrogirl – IgoUgo