Sticker Shock

 

One artist takes aim at cash vultures.

Story by Clif Travers

Maybe you’ve seen the signs but didn’t register what they were. They look a lot like the ones that inspired them, the signs that first appeared on telephone poles and community bulletin boards in the early 2000s: Cash For Your Home or Cash for Your Junk Car. “These people are predators,” Geoff Hargadon says, and he was inspired to shine a light on their depravity. Hargadon creates similar street lures offering money for valuable art. Cash for Your Warhol, they proclaim in evocative graphics that embed themselves into our world. A recent sighting was on parking signage outside Maine Hardware off St. John Street.

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