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Philadelphia, PA
Isaiah Zagar
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Mosiac environment
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Information:
Jawdropping good stuff everywhere you turn is how I'd describe what Isaiah's tile work. Because there's so much of it and it's so damned beautiful. He's been doing mosaics on and inside buildings around Philly's South Street since 1969, when he says he had a nervous breakdown as a reaction to the turmoil of the times.
"I'm not doing this to be famous" he says. "I just want them to let me work." And work he does, mixing concrete and applying it onto walls of buildings that he has bought up over the years, and then rents out to people who then live in the art and pay him rent.
What Isaiah figures he needs is a sponsor. He's hot on the notion it should be Rolling Rock, since he really likes their beer. And he's a big time coffee drinker too, which you could guess when you see how much square footage his mosaics cover.
Isaiah teaches classes in making this kind of stuff because, as he says, his goal is to tile the world, "and I can't do it all myself."
William Penn would be proud.
Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations
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Bibliography:
On DVD - Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations, "Next Stop New England", KCPT, Kansas City Public Television, 2003.
"Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997.
"Raw Vision Outsider Art Sourcebook" Raw Vision, Ltd., 2002
"Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast Travel-o-Pedia" by Randy Mason, et. al., Kansas City Star Books, 2009. |
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