NEW YORK CITY PAINTS BETTER THAN ME

A city is made of nearly infinite variations of scum, filth, crust, canker, puss, shit, urine,
slurpy, ash, dead skin, sludge, stray hair, battery acid, gum residue, glass shards, vomit,
turpentine, gasoline, semen, chicken bones, crème brûlée and ketchup stains. The palette of a
city is far vaster than a sole human painter could ever begin to muster. It is the communal colors
of millions of inhabitants painting all day and night, ceaselessly creating from dawn til dusk
and all through the night til dawn again. If humans are the pigment factories, then no other city
in the world can match the variety of New York. Hundreds of languages amongst countless enclaves
of cultures, from deep Bronx to Wall Street and from Jamaica to Staten Island each of them working
with all their might on excretion of one sort or another. Refuse, waste, rubbish, leftovers,
recycling, trash, detritus and fumes... these are colors we make and these are the colors
New York paints with.


I am dragging myself, belly down through all of the major public squares of New York City,
letting the city paint with me as the canvas. Using the work of John Cage, William Pope L.,
Sigmar Polke and Paul McCarthy as a springboard, I step full into the heart and bowels of the city and
explore the infinite creations and variations of the most diverse metropolis in the world.

NEW YORK CITY PAINTS BETTER THAN ME: UNION SQUARE

April 30, 2011


MORE PHOTOS AND VIDEO TO COME!



What Warhol doesn't know won't kill him again...

photo by Eric Clinton Anderson




photo by Michael Kingsbaker




photo by Michael Kingsbaker




photo by Eric Clinton Anderson




photo by Michael Kingsbaker




photo by Eric Clinton Anderson




photo by Eric Clinton Anderson






Special thank you for filming, photos and support go out to:


Etienne Truchot
Adam Reign
Eric Clinton Anderson
Michael Kingsbaker
Philipp Ricklefs
Aaron Garson
Laura Silverfoote
Barbara Head
William Pope L.
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NEW YORK CITY PAINTS BETTER THAN ME: GREELEY SQUARE

February 21, 2010



1 minute excerpt of full video



photo by Eric Clinton Anderson



photo by Eric Clinton Anderson











photo by Eric Clinton Anderson







photo by Eric Clinton Anderson



Incidental Painting: Greeley Square



Incidental Painting: Greeley Square (detail)



Incidental Painting: Greeley Square (detail)




Special thank you for filming, photos and support go out to:

Emma Hall
Eric Clinton Anderson