Art Abandonment

There is a movement of people across the world creating art and placing it for strangers to find. 

The Art Abandonment Group can be found on social media and you can scroll through the pieces of art that people had lovingly created to pass on to strangers.

The artist makes a decision to leave one an artwork in a public place, for someone to find and keep or pass it on.

The group was founded by artist Michael deMeng, artist and owner of Michael deMeng Art.  He says the inspiration for the group came from a sketch on a napkin. He decided to leave it on the table for the next person to find wondering what would become of the artwork. Would it be liked? Would it be thrown away?

The response to the posting of his first abandonment was so popular that they started the Facebook group to inspire others. Within a week there were more than 800 members and today they have nearly 30,000 members worldwide.

Traditional pieces of art like painting and drawings are made and left outside, but members also abandon jewellery, pottery, garden and home décor, books and zines, and even rocks! Whole families are getting involved and people are abandoning their art in shops, on the beach, in parks and anywhere there might be a flow of pedestrian traffic.

Next time you’re feeling overwhelmed by the sad and tragic news of the world, visit the Art Abandonment Facebook page and if you want to join in, you’ll find all the details there as well.

This is a clever way to make people think about art and anyone from adult to child can participate while the pieces vary in theme and size.

Here at MoonInk it is our mission to take the poetry out of the page and into the world and we have started a project where we are writing Tanka and Haiku poems onto stone. We are leaving them on the seafront and in town for people to read and take home if they like a particular poem.

Visit us a www.moonink.co.uk for more information, sign up for the free Poem of the Month and follow us on social media for more poems.  

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