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Brooklyn Street Art

BSA: Are the works that you leave on the street meant to stand the test of time?
Hyland Mather: They are meant to interact with time. It is a collaborative effort between myself and nature over time.

He has a good way of incorporating lines that contrast side-by-side vertical and curves. He anchors strings on to nails connecting them like dot-to-dot to form polygons. The colors are balanced. The texture of the wood are carefully picked and smartly layered on each one. For me, these are the reasons why it brings in that romantic feeling of a perfectly composed and balanced assemblage. - Mark Changco.

Haha Mag

Huffington Post

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Kopenhagen Magazine

Paradigm Gallery

Stolen Space Gallery

Studio Como

The Jaunt

The Why Not

What is the idea behind your work?Well, there are lots of ideas that surround the work for me, but I would say the dominant one is 'zen practice'. When I'm making, or thinking of making, I try and let myself slip into a meditative state and let the work find what feels like balance to me. Almost always I use materials that are 'lost' ... old things that have been discarded or unused, and in this way, I'm very much aligned with the ancient zen idea of the 'usefulness of the useless'.

VNA

Wide Walls

Yorokobu

1XRUN

Anthea Missy

Art Rebels

Art Slant

Artist A Day

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Brooklyn Street Art

Creative Boom

He tackles each piece with no set in stone plan, allowing the material to dictate the way in which it is used and changed. "Essentially, I use a zen-like approach to 'lost object' making. I’m searching for balance and harmony…The materials inform the outcome.

Denver Graffiti Tour

Dutch Culture USA

Helium Cowboy

Under the moniker of ‘The Lost Object’, Hyland Mather claims abandoned objects and lost pieces of wood found in the city streets, urban wastelands, dirt paths and any other place in between, in order to create layered sculptures and installations that breathe spontaneity.

Italia Art Magazine

Where does the inspiration come from?

Right now I am mostly inspired by the idea of “art -vs- accident”. I see many things on the street… piles of junk, random stacks of lumber, or a smashed window that are somehow very beautiful to me, but are not made to be purposefully beautiful. A field of flowers has this same feeling.