Street artist Mark Jenkins

by Maja Mali Zmaj - 7:13 PM

Mark Jenkins is an American street artist who makes interesting sculptures out of duct tape and exhibits them on the streets of cities across America. He was born in Alexandria (Virginia) in 1970. Before this job, he was involved in web design, played the saxophone, formed a funk band, and eventually found himself in rap electronics. He has a girlfriend he is very much in love with, who follows him everywhere and helps him with his work. Thanks to his idea, he traveled a lot and paid special attention to people of other cultures. He wrote a monograph called The Urban Theater.

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His sculptures are so realistic that it often happened that passers-by called the police in a panic. Due to the interesting reactions of people, the whole story became a sociological experiment. His work causes confusion, fear, anger, and laughter.

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The sculptures he makes are of various shapes - so far he has made babies, giraffes, dogs, people, and he likes to exhibit his works in unusual locations.

When asked why he makes such sculptures, he answered that he wants to make people think about their environment - what is real and what is not. He thinks that people are obsessed with their mobile phones, that they do not notice anything around them and says that he just wanted to make them look up. His work allows him to communicate with the rest of the world on a deeper level. Some sculptures are disturbing and have a dark tone, but in his opinion they represent marginalized, lonely individuals and people walking on the street approach them to help them, until they see what they are, because they identify with them.

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