I found these images on StumbleUpon and I think they are awesome. I love it when artists play around with the street, and create art in the everyday situation. Particularly as it forces art into the everyday, I confronts you as you are on your daily commute or when you are pushing past shoppers and tourists. It is one of the wonderful things about living in a city like London, round every corner there can be tucked away pieces of art. Whether it is the form of graffiti in Shoreditch or installations on the South Bank.
I think these pieces are both wonderfully comical and poignant. At first one is amused particularly by those images of figures impaled on street signs. Then underneath this there is something darker, a comment on the attitudes of society our ability to walk past situations on the street. The seedy dangerous underbelly that lives within each city. The installations of people stood on ledges and stuffed inside bin bags; suggests the of the waste of life. The ability for those in urban occupants to ignore those around them, the disarming of diffused responsibility. There is something chilling when we can see pedestrians walking past these figures, either oblivious or simple choosing to ignore them.

The cellotape figures are equally fascinating. These fantastical images of animals and figures opaque and ghostlike.  You can only imagine what it must be like to come across one of these sculptures when walking down the street.

These sculptures both illustrate the ridiculous as well as having a deeper layer of the sinister and hidden nature of cities. In the same way that Richard Long plays with the natural environment to create pieces of art that may stand untouched for years. Artists like Jenkins and Banksy create a urban version with a shorter lifespan. As fast paced and transient as urban life, these pieces are unique in their nature because no one expects them to last.

You can find more of Mark Jenkins work at his website check out his storker project, equally creepy and entertaining.