nice to see him getting active again. Hopefully it is going to be interesting to watch new works revealed.

He's going to be getting up in Nuart soon to !

What are we looking at here? A crappy pale blue square?

He's not started yet p brain.... or maybe he has ( and lost the plot)

Best thing he's done in years.

Umm yea he has dick face, 

best at things he's done in years is a pale blue square haha says it all

Yikes are those for real?

My thoughts exactly, Nuart.

Looking at his body of work, I am definitely seeing some evolution/devolution themes running strong. It seems he has been taking it in reverse...The question is, what is being killed and where there be growth from it again?

I. Don't. Get. It..

Someone with an art degree, or something like that, please explain!

His next print release will be interesting. Will it still sell out in seconds?

I might just be blanking right now, but when did Faile do anything that incorporated buffing?

If you have watched any interviews by them or even read any interviews you would know that they are fascinated with the way that things end up on the street and how they are buffed/torn/exposed/repainted and given new life.

For example - Just look at any of the 150 series and you will see that they put an image down and then buff it and then put a new image over it. They often use multiple buffing stages. They often used ripped tape on pieces - placed strategically and then painted over it and then remove the tape pieces so that it looked like torn off street posters.

I guess the same goes for BAST also then as he does the same thing. It is also possible that many people on here did or do not see the process that makes Faile - Faile.

Maybe it is time there is a shift in this forum to actually talk about the art and the processes rather than the prices.

I have been following Faile since the early 2000s and did my first interview with them in 2006. They are also one of the most prominently featured artists in my book from last year, so I am quite familiar with their work.

While, as you say, they are certainly inspired by the processes and layering that goes on in the street (as can be seen in their use of painted rips in some of their prints and paintings), I have never thought of their studio work as incorporating buffing per se, and certainly not in any way that is comparable to that of Borf or the new work by Dolk.

That some do not see much of Faile's art as buffing - is their opinion. When something is there purposely... and then wiped away ... and then rebuilt in a new way... well... that is buffing or part of the process. They could simply just put a single image up on a piece of paper... but it is the process which makes it look the way it does. The Patricks also say that they often work on multiple pieces at the same time building and buffing each others work (and now the work of their assistants) and then going back to it later to do some more.

I am not here to win any argument, I was asked to elaborate by two people. As for condescending tone. Text is hard to imply tone and as for gaining friends on here simply by agreeing with the masses and bashing artistic expression was never my thing. Also, someone with condescending tone rarely would take the time to embellish or invite conversation.

BTW...who is to say that Dolk isnt going back to do something with these 100 street pieces later? Would that be buffing?

MOBSTR uses other people to buff his art to make a statement and interact with it. Very successfully I might add.

Saber has been doing buffing as part of his street work since the late 90's. Most of his art now has some level of buffing in it.