How to find Acts of Random Art (A.o.A.R.)

To Start You are going to have to change the way you look at everything. Many people just look straight ahead and go from point A to point B and always on the well traveled paths.

To find A.o.A.R. you will need to look in door ways that scare you, the ground, up high, and to take routes you might not always take. Think of someplace hard to get to or out of sight. Most likely you’ll find something there. Stenciled work, wall papered images and the standby tags. Now sometimes the best public works are right in front of your nose and in the most public locations, especially street sculptures. Most people either don’t see it because it’s in their every day path and have imprinted what the surroundings are and do not notice something new and different. Others will see it and think it must have been sanctioned to be there because why else would it be in such an obvious space?

So really the best way to find A.o.R.A. is open your eyes and take not a second look around you, but a third, fourth, and why not a fifth time? You just might find something you didn’t see before.


Originally Posted : April 5, 2011