2024 05 19

An Alvaro Ilizarbe art installation at the Fashion Outlet Mall in Rosemont, Illinois. November, 2023. © Clayton Hauck

Here’s another view of Alvaro Ilizarbe’s amazing art installation at the mall, which I mentioned yesterday. It’s hard to tell in this image since there is no point of reference, but the painting here is like 30ft high and the overall area he painted in the mall is pretty big and much of it is on the ceiling, which he painted while laying down horizontally atop a huge metal scaffold. I’m still impressed when I see this in person and offended by all the shoppers who whizz right past it on their way back to the parking lot. But that’t the case with all the art in this mall — out of context, things take on a different meaning and hold different value. If 40% Nike Outlet discount codes were embedded into this art piece, it’s likely people would all of a sudden become far more interested in it.

Now, I use this image as one of over 400 and rising in rotation as backdrops of my Keep it 100 portrait sessions.

-Clayton