After numerous attempts to come up with a design for the mobile café that ultimately would be implemented as a “vehicle wrap, I decided to pursue a different direction. The white box needed to look cool, hip, magical, and by all means a head-turner. Enter Tim Clorius, a graffiti artist living in Portland Maine whose paintings are on display throughout the community in Portland. He was born and raised in Germany. Tim’s medium is aerosol spray cans. He works with the vision in his head, no sketches or drawings. This was a tough issue for me to swallow. But we talked about his concept and guaranteed I’d be happy with the results. Besides I saw his portfolio and that is why I wanted him in the first place. Hell he’s European so it has to be good.
As I watched Tim work with objects, shapes, and textures meticulously assembling them in multitudes of viewpoints. It became clear that Tim’s concept was influential of the cubist movement that began in the 20th century pioneered by Pablo Picasso. Shapes and objects intersecting at random angles that removed any coherent sense of depth, was one of cubism’s distinct characteristics. The big white box was a canvas and each of the four sides had its own concept that intersected with the right angle of the other side. There are no signs of the real world here — just an artist expressing his freedom of abstract forms — an art and coffee manifesto under one roof. Stop by the Hingham Farmers Market on Saturdays from 10-2 and say hello.