The NYPD confiscated, then blew up, 5,000 pounds of fireworks last week, so don’t expect to be dazzled by your neighbors this 4th of July. Note to self and friends: Hide better.
Sensing the profound loss felt throughout Brooklyn and Chinatown, the folks over at Flavorwire thought a gallery of fireworks inspired art would be the next best thing to nearly getting your fingers blown off.
Here’s some of our favorites from their favorites as well as our own effort, specifically Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang, above, who uses gun-powder as his medium when making art.
Born in Quanzhou city in southeastern China, Cai studied stage design in Shanghai and achieved international prominence in Japan. He moved to New York in 1995 and his gun powder series came into play because of the West’s uneasiness with China as a superpower.
Read more about him here and see his some of his work after the break.
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Ryan McGinley’s Fireworks Hysterics, 2007-2008.
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Ryan McGinley’s Firework Hysterics 2007-2008.
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Untitled Cai gunpowder painting.
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Cai in front of one of his pieces.
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Photographer Caleb Charland’s Long Exposure of a lit match.
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Cai guoqian’s Fallen Blossoms, 2009
