Eric Mancini

Jeremy Green “Gray Area” 07/11/18

In a fast-developing, funky, and unofficial art district on the wrong side of the tracks in Dallas, Texas there is an old house that is being put to a new use. The house is covered in a purposeful graffiti. Slipping through a space in the hurricane fencing that surrounded it, I shot some details with my Sony RX100 pocket camera. A search on the internet for information revealed that it is a work of “controlled chaos” by artist Eric Mancini. Making pictures of details of another artist’s work is a moral gray area to me. It’s not my work of inspiration, but it’s a subject that is irresistible to shoot. The resulting images are merely my point of view on another artist’s work. I have watched a pedestrian casually take a picture with their cell phone of one of my prints on display at an exhibition, and it filled me with mixed emotions. I don’t feel that this image is such an overt theft, but the work is not entirely my own either.