**The master of contemporary sidewalk chalk shares his latest creations
in this collection of impossible-seeming, brilliantly imagined
illustrations that leap off the page in all their original joyful
exuberance.
**
David Zinn's amazing street drawings are created using chalk, charcoal
and found objects, and each extraordinary drawing is only ever
temporary. This book preserves Zinn's art in all its colorful, hypnotic
glory by collecting together never-before-published images of his
eye-popping creations. Created over the last two years on streets across
the globe, these adorably zany and deceptively three-dimensional
characters come to life on manhole covers and streetlamps, village
squares and subway platforms. Zinn's most frequent characters are a
bright green googly-eyed monster and a phlegmatic flying pig--but the
diversity of his menagerie is limited only by the size of the sidewalk
and the spirit of the day. In a brief introduction Zinn describes his
creative process, explaining how he seeks out everyday imperfections to
situate his art-such as sidewalk cracks and chips, tufts of weeds and
sewer grates-and brief captions describe the provenance of each work.
While these amazing drawings can no longer stop pedestrians in their
tracks on the streets, they live on in book form to mesmerize and
inspire readers of all ages.
