ARTIST - Ellis Gallagher

What i find interesting about Ellis Gallagher's work is that he uses existing objects to create new experience of the space they're in. He uses colour and light to change the experience of the everyday. 

Ocular Echoism: The Autonomy of Ellis Gallagher

'Ellis Gallagher’s shadow chalk drawings traverse pre-conceived perceptions of street art’s brevity by manipulating the impact of the ever-changing city landscape, transforming it into a sublime stand still. His graffiti writing roots have evolved into an outlet that speaks and interacts with its viewers by engaging in an ongoing, lucid conversation between the artist and city residents. Aesthetically, chalk as a medium behaves perfectly to accomplish Ellis Gallagher’s mission to transpose the mundane into something magical. It’s temporal, opaque, and transcendental, removing the viewer from his or her own personal reality and subjecting them to question something else all together, A renewal of their surroundings that are experienced every day.
Existing only as a reflection of his environment, Ellis Gallagher’s work spatially considers the everyday object and the study of transitory light and color. In daytime, He aims to perfectly enclose projected shadows, capturing their essence in a chalk outline. The constant battle between the art and the fleeting sunlight sanctions these drawings as being more rare, more beautiful. However, beneath the static glow of the city’s street light, Ellis Gallagher can transcend the cityscape into his own playground of glowing, vivacious shadows.' - http://www.artcat.com/exhibits/9920