Back in January, I shared a post on Garment Mosaics created by a talented artist, Noah Scalin. I have revisited his site many times since and each new piece I see, I love more than the one before. 

In addition to clothing and accessories, Scalin also employs small stickers as a medium for his designs. You know the type, the strip of cartoon characters given out to a child after a doctor’s visit. Well, the variety of shapes and colors in stickers lends itself to create stunning images, similar to how the small photos work in photo mosaics. 

The artwork above Of America: The Problem We All Still Live With was part of a solo show where Scalin was featured at the Krause Gallery last May. He had this to say about the 48×36″ panel:
“Based on the famous photo of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges being escorted from school by federal marshals, after she became the first black child to attend the all-white elementary school in her hometown in 1960. Her bravery inspired the Norman Rockwell painting The Problem We All Live With. My interpretation of this photo, made with thousands of commercially produced stickers, places this powerful image into our modern context, where sadly it remains as relevant today as it was then.”

The video above is time-lapse footage that Scalin films while he creates his pieces. It’s amazing to see the tedious attention to detail it takes to hand place each sticker in just the right position to create a larger image. Below are a few more pieces, but be sure to check out his site to see the rest of his collection.

This collection is so reminiscent of the many photo mosaics I share on my blog, smaller images strategically placed to create one stunning image, so naturally, I am captivated by Noah Scalin’s sticker art!

Source: Noah Scalin