EVOL's Underground City

One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours?The street art work of EVOL is hardly natural. The German artist is known for his wheat pasted stencil work that mimics high-rise buildings and small-scale cities are...

By Claire Lawton

August 3, 2011

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One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours?

The street art work of EVOL is hardly natural.

The German artist is known for his wheat pasted stencil work that mimics high-rise buildings and small-scale cities are found on electrical boxes, pieces of paper, and abandoned walls.

EVOL recently completed his first piece in a rural setting.

"As I came [to the site] first, that's what I found: endless meadow, trees and blue sky," he writes. "Not exactly what I play with usually. So I decided to cut open the idyll, and pretend there is no endless meadow, but only rooftop-gardens of the disgust underneath."

See more of his work on his website or on his Flickr page.

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