The cave that you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.
~ Joseph Campbell
The Monster Project
artist Kylin O’Brien, USA
Visit the web site: The Monster Project.
See more of Kylin’s O’Brien’s artwork.
New York-based artist Kylin O’Brien works with children’s drawings for The Monster Project, initially launched at the 12th Annual Art Under the Bridge Festival in DUMBO Brooklyn in 2008. Kylin’s art enhances walls in cities around the U.S., including in New York, California and Florida, and in time plans to include more cities in the U.S., as well as international locations.
This public art initiative transforms monsters into guardians in neighborhoods around the city. Children’s drawings of monsters, with some fine tuning from Kylin, become murals as large as 20 feet high and 80 feet long, painted on walls in neighborhoods where children can appreciate their own young perspectives as public art.
Kylin’s work has inspired other artists to explore and celebrate children’s drawings of monsters. The Monster Project was invited to California in 2010 by artist/curator Rodney Artiles – this resulted in two more monsters coming to life on the West Coast. Artist Jennifer Bevill also took an interest in The Monster Project and she has used the project concepts in her 2nd and 5th grade curricula at Brooklyn’s PS8. The newest monster addition is in Miami, Florida, with new monsters being planned as funding allows.
[Image copyright: Jenn Kendall]
