Couch Art Project – Only Seven Left

Denton Couch Art
Tentative logo for the book.

It’s an Easter egg hunt of sorts, finding these couches all over town. But the end is near. I found three additional couches over the weekend, and I bet this summer will close out the first FIFTY couches for the self-published title, “Couch Art, Volume I.”

These last three couches were real pieces of work, and these last two months have yielded some of the best couches since starting this project in 2017. I wonder how many UNT or TWU students could focus their minds, their determination and their cameras for two full years on a single project?

In all honest, I lost focus somewhere! When images come in drips-drabs and then torrents … somewhere along the way I lost count or lost images in the machines.

Back in The Black

shannon drawe photography denton texas book couch art 2019

A long time coming and a long time gone, as the song goes! We went through a bit of hell while bringing down the attackers who hobbled the www.shannondrawe.com website among others on the node. BUT, here we go again.

COUCH ART

The “Couch Art” book is coming along nicely, although there seems to have been word passed that I was working on this book. Why? Because now I rarely find any couches on the streets of Denton, Texas. However, I did find a very nice one two days ago. The first time I shot it, the light was late and bad. So, I went back and did it again – when these clouds kicked in once again.

If you are saying, “What the hell is couch art?” Perhaps you are too young to remember a time when traveling art shows would rent out a ballroom at a hotel, and run ads on local TV. The ads promised artwork, not one, not two, but maybe three huge paintings for the price of one! The ads were the predecessors to those monster truck ads if I think about it …

Anyway, the artwork was painted in generic colors to match the latest fabric used in upholstering couches. Hence the name “couch art.”

Besides the disappearing couches, weather has been a huge story here in North Texas.

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