A Paint Collective

Isn't it just so very, very FRUSTRATING when you can't find the right paint, materials, or utensils to put together your projects? Can you think of anything more depressing than knowing that there's this great idea in your head, something to make the world a little brighter, and you simply don't have the medium to make it happen? Good news, friends, comrades, compatriots: you can fix this. You and many you know may have the very same problem. And what one can't do, often 2-10000000 can.

So here's an idea. Find a place that you can store the materials and use them. If you're going to be making asphalt mosaics (see next post) or if you're going to be doing some nifty stenciling, why not set up a workshop??? You can find a willing benefactors house, or you can find a secretive location that has at least a floor, a light, and a desk (though walls and a ceiling might help). Store the materials so people can pick them up from and return them to a central location. Make sure it's relatively accessible so that people don't feel like they're going way out of their way or spending half a day trying to get there.

But, here's the important part. Choose people you know aren't going to be untrustworthy or selfish, close friends you trust and would mutually benefit from setting this all up. Once you have these people, have everybody donate the materials to be used freely and trustingly amongst everybody. True to the nature of an anarchist endeavor, you must know who you can trust, and you must be willing to contribute not to the possessions, but to the creations of art: beautiful, rule-breaking art, or semi-legal gorgeous art, but nonetheless created by a human being, a friend, and a work of beauty no matter what.

The reason I've titled this the paint collective is because that's what we're starting. In one central location, people can access boards that can be cut into, exacto-knives, card-stock or transparencies, and paint of various colors and compositions, of which people can donate to and use freely. This is our paint collective. You can do it with whatever you want, but it's important to have a safe, friendly, and accessible place that people can use to make their contributions to humanity.

Beaux reves, mon amis.