One Man's Trash, Another's 'Instagram Experiment'
Instagram has become a platform for visual storytelling, personal exploration, and for graphic designer Javier Perez, a canvas to fuse the worlds of art, design and photography. In Javier's collection of drawings, titled the "Instagram Experiments," the Ecuadorian illustrator uses everyday objects like fruit, tools and toys to complete whimsical pencil sketches, posting them as photos to the social media forum for a project as charming as it is humorous.
Javier goes by the username "Cintascotch," and at present, he's got over 79,000 people following his every outline.
"Instagram changed the way we consume art," Javier tells the Good News blog. "The artists of Instagram have the challenge to capture the attention of the people only just for few seconds and show them that your artwork is unique and different from the rest."
Undoubtedly, Javier has seized the zeitgeist. His unique creations include a pirate with an Oreo eyepatch…
A bee built by a push pin…
An IV bag composed with a Burger King ketchup packet (South American-style)…
Porcupine + nails…
and the Eiffel Tower as depicted in forks...
These are but a few of Javier's exceptional pieces.
"When I created my Instagram account, I decided to keep it updated every week," he explains. "Using this technique (objects and illustrations) is a fast way to do so. My hope is to keep looking for new meaning of the common everyday items."
As a way of disseminating imagination quickly and efficiently, Javier decided Instagram was the ideal platform for his art. In this manner, he's able to expand to an audience beyond his peers, and to people of all nationalities and ages.
"A mom told me that her 10-year-old daughter is very inspired by my work," Javier recalls, nothing that the little girl ended up using some of his creations for her own project. "For me, this is very special fan art because it's the first person to use this image of my cowboy.
You can find Javier's complete collection on his Instagram page.
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