Worldwide Mixed Media Artist?
1DIRLUST is an Australian artist who made a name for himself by putting up thousands of works around the world featuring a smirking fox, founding his place in the street-art scene in early 2014.
1DIRLUST over the last decade has travelled to over 58 countries, and has visited over 168+ cities, travelling over 640,000 kms, that’s only just around 12% of the world travelled.
1DIRLUST was created as a way to leave footprints in the past, memorized timestamps to remember a place travelled or moment had. When travelling many artists are known to leave their marks, it’s a global conversation of which most aren’t aware.
By using a series of artistic platforms and mediums split between the physical and digital a global presence was established, global installations ranged from stickers and posters/wheat pasting to stencils and other paint/spray-paint based works.
You will know my name.
1DIRLUST formed a social experiment with the “You will know my name” slogan, this would be featured on various works around the world with the most common piece being “The Creeper” a design that features a fox wearing a hoodie brandishing the slogan “You will know my name” in big painted letters across the front.
“The Creeper” was placed around the world, thousands of works in sticker/poster/mural form without any signature or name statement over the span of three years. The underlying experiment was to create a recognition of the fox, a yearning to find out the name, a wander of what this is and how it got here and a journey to discover more – the essence of wanderlust, of which we shared together.
What does it all mean?
1DIRLUST broken down has three very distinct meanings.
- 1 – You, yourself, the centre of everything.. (Number One)
- DIR – Direction, forwardness, the directory or container of your life.
- LUST – To have a yearning or desire; have a strong or excessive craving (often followed by for or after).
The phonetic interpretation of 1DIRLUST takes from the German word “Wanderlust“.
The English loanword “wanderlust” was already extant in the German language dating as far back as Middle High German.
The first documented use of the term in English occurred in 1902 as a reflection of what was then seen as a characteristically German predilection for wandering that may be traced back to German Romanticism and the German system of apprenticeship (the journeyman), as well as the adolescent custom of the ‘Wanderbird’ seeking unity with nature.
