Paint the town
January 27, 2007 at 9:37 pm by Noah Gardenswartz in Randomly NotedThis is a crazy ass article about a crazy ass artist…
The artist Dash Snow rammed a screwdriver into his buzzer the other day. He has no phone. He doesn�t use e-mail. So now, if you want to speak to him, you have to go by his apartment on Bowery and yell up. Lorax-like, he won�t come to the window to let you see that he sees you: He has a periscope he puts up so he can check you out first.
Partly, it comes from his graffiti days, this elusiveness, the recent adolescence the 25-year-old Snow spent tagging the city and dodging the police. �He�s pretty paranoid about lots of things in general, and some of it was dished out to him, but others he�s created himself,� says Snow�s friend, the 27-year-old artist Dan Colen, who�like so many of their friends�has made significant artistic contributions to the ever-expanding mythology of Dash Snow. Colen and Snow went to London together this fall for the Saatchi show in which they both had work. (Saatchi had bought one of Colen�s sculptures for $500,000.) Saatchi got them a fancy hotel room on Piccadilly. They had to flee it in the middle of the night with their suitcases before it was discovered that they�d created one of their Hamster�s Nests, which they�ve done quite a few times before. To make a Hamster�s Nest, Snow and Colen shred up 30 to 50 phone books, yank around all the blankets and drapes, turn on the taps, take off their clothes, and do drugs�mushrooms, coke, ecstasy�until they feel like hamsters.
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