Space Invader Stops Wildfires

Being that all of Southern California is currently on fire, I thought it apropoe(sp.) to feature someone whose work is fire resistant. Yep, you guessed it, I am talking about the Parisian street artist Space Invader.

For those of you readers who may have been here before, you may remember an earlier post in which I featured this same fellow. This second piece is not only within the same universe (Los Angeles) but they inhabit the same galaxy (Silver Lake). As I mentioned in the earlier post, I am way into the fact that Space Invader’s art (8-bit monsters) is engaged with it’s medium (tile squares). Not only that, but he seems to have found a way to make his street art as near permanent as possible (being that if you paint over it, it remains and to remove it, you need a hammer and chisel).

Ok, well I have gotten my fill of parenthesis and I hope you have 2.

Location: On the northwest corner of Sunset and Hyperion in Silver Lake

Space Invader Is Outta This World

OPERATION EAGLE CLAW continues today on the front lines of Silver Lake.

French mosaicist, Space Invader, is nothing short of prolific here in the City of Angels. Boasting 109 pieces installed through out the Los Angeles metro area, not to mention, one on the Hollywood sign, Space Invader has sealed his fate as the Crunch Wrap Supreme of tile mosaicists here in Los Angeles.

On the south side of the Sunset Pacific Motel, one can find this 8-bit monster keeping it real despite a layer of white paint. Now before you send smoke signals, claiming continuity errors between my drawing and my description, listen close young brave. After much thought and consideration, I decided to restore the electric blue of the ceramic tiles, bringing back the color that was once there. Mind you, this piece still exists, but more as a specter of what was once there, but there nonetheless. Using ceramic tiles, Space Invader has created a type of street art that can’t just be painted over but must be forcefully removed with a hammer and chisel, pretty xXxKOOLxXx if you ask me.

Location: On the south facing wall of the Sunset Pacific Motel, just west of Bates on Sunset in Silver Lake.