The street artist known as Oak Oak uses the urban elements of his domestic town of Saint-Étienne,an customary industrial town in France, to create humorous, or site-specific art. What I like approximately street art is that you can find somewhere to draw anywhere and it is a surprise for the people who find it,” he says. “Any wall can be a canvas.” Playing with the glimpse of concrete city elements, he combines his unique style of graffiti and doodles with pop culture references (The Simpsons is an influence), or humanising inanimate objects. A selection of Oak Oak’s works have been gathered into a new book called Urban Diversion (Omaké €15).
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Source: theguardian.com