SpiralTruth

Julian Beever knows how to give you vertigo while walking down the street. Check out his surreal chalk pavement drawings and see if you don’t agree. Believe it or not, these do not involve any modifications to the pavement beyond coloring it with chalk. Any sense of depth on the sidewalk itself comes from Julian’s own strange mind. I’ve always been fascinated with street artists. I’ve always seen permanence as being an important incentive for an artist to create. When I write a story or a song, I’m recording something I think is important, and even if I may never be able to quit my day job, that pseudo-immortality is enough to encourage me to continue to create in my spare time. But someone who makes a beautiful chalk drawing knows it’s going to get walked on and rained on and eventually ruined. He knows that, but he still does it. Sure Beever and others can catalog their work with a camera, but past snapshots, they have only memories of their art. It’s a very brave way to create. If you want a bit of insight into the process he goes through, check out the video of him doing his Aveeno Fountain of Youth drawing in New York: