“I had wanted to make an interpretation of me giving all of myself to my work… I wanted to convey that the cans were exploding with color, and that’s how my art was being created.”
– Rene Gagnon, street artist
In case anyone forgot, the Department of Homeland Security does not approve of – we repeat, does not approve of – you placing stickers that show a man with “his arms outstretched and his face pointed to the sky” and what “looks like a bomb” strapped to his chest, on airport trashcans. Here’s the story of how Rene Gagnon’s image, that was originally part of a street piece intended to riff on 1970’s grafitti argot, got the attention of the DHS.
