Barnstormer Brainstorm

I've always had this idea of how beautiful a town would be if every building had a mural painting on its sides. In Cameron, North Carolina a couple of artists had a visual idea similar to mine. The difference...they actually executed it. The Barnstormers by name alone to me was a complete turn-off. Maybe a little too rural for my taste like a rampage of farmers causing mayhem in barns. But, the Barnstormers are on the far side of the picket fence and from my perception the grass is a lot greener. These artists from both New York and Tokyo pilgrimaged from their urban settings to small town Cameron and bought the inner city to barn shacks, trackers, and almost anything rural but the cow with their massive collaborative paintings. Formed in 1999, these 25-30 artist turned old visually unattractive farms into a fusion of urban and rural mecca. It's not just the ending project alone. Much like the previous artist I touched on, Nick Knight, their work is about the process of it happening. Their process is recorded in stop motion animation videos where their collaborative works become individualized projects of change. The way these artist go about it is somewhat unplanned in the sense that they seem to have a go with the flow type attitude and build off of each other's work.