Pascal Paquette Graffiti Bookends

Monday, November 29, 2010

The Toronto based graffiti artist Pascal Paquette created these interesting bookends using old bricks from a wall he had once painted.

Pascal Paquette:
These are bookends made with bricks from recently torn down brownstones that I had previously graffiti(ed?) in and around Toronto.

Painting a building is a challenge (as you know) but getting the bricks while a brownstone is being torn down is even more difficult. Construction sites are monitored and the timing is tricky. I usually have a window of two days from the shovel showing up to the last truck leaving. So finding a few bricks in great shape that has fragments of my work on them without getting caught is quite the task.

They are cleaned, coated with matte varnish and finished with a silk-screened wool footing inscribed with the year the graffiti was painted and where the brownstone once stood.