{"id":304,"date":"2010-10-07T10:25:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T14:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handlernyc.com\/interestingfoundobjects\/?p=304"},"modified":"2012-07-23T10:28:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T14:28:26","slug":"teofilo-olivieri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handlernyc.com\/interestingfoundobjects\/2010\/10\/teofilo-olivieri\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal art"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Montana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Beaver sticks<\/p>\n

Mysteriously carved, and found in a friend\u2019s studio.<\/p>\n

The repetitive patterns are created by a beaver gnawing off the stick\u2019s bark.<\/p>\n

The patterns change depending on the age of the beaver, the type of wood, and extenuating circumstances.<\/p>\n

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From New York<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

I was walking down University Place towards ninth street, when I saw some paintings displayed on a metal security gate.<\/p>\n

I never look \u2013 because those tourist things are always awful \u2013 but something about these paintings caught my eye.<\/p>\n

The man who painted them introduced himself. His name is Teofilo Olivieri.<\/p>\n

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I asked him why he painted on book covers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was in rehab and really needed to paint,\u201d he said. \u201cI saw some books and realized that they were just made of canvas, so I painted on them. Then they threw me out of rehab.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor defacing government property.\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m still clean.\u201d<\/p>\n

He does not draw the animal in any way. He just paints the negative space. You can see more of his work online.<\/p>\n

Three paintings for Eighty Dollars<\/p>\n

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