Local artist Jacob Boland is leaving his mark on downtown Augusta. His immediate goal with his art is to “make people laugh or smile,” and to encourage drawing. His end goal is to be allowed by a downtown business to make a mural. Those who have a good eye can find his doodles scattered around his favorite haunts in the Broad Street area.
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Urban art like Boland’s started as a type of underground art but has been elevated to the mainstream by the work of artists such as Banksy, an anonymous street artist and political activist who has been active in England since the 1990s.
litterbug
Tucked behind Southern Salad, one of Boland’s doodles finds its home on the side of a dumpster. This whimsical little guy has a few family members scattered on other trash cans downtown. The Santa Claus of trash, he’s always watching.
lost
Behind another one of Boland’s favorite Broad Street haunts, Nacho Mama’s, this Nervous Nellie is stressing out on a dumpster. Intense social anxiety and the lack of a phone leaves him stuck in a smelly limbo.
3 heads; nothing to say
On the wall of the staircase leading to Joe’s Underground, despite having one more brain than its two-headed sibling, this creature still finds itself at a loss for words. The secrets it has learned from eavesdropping on the bar’s patrons will likely stay secret.
2 heads…still nothing to say
On a piece of plywood blocking, a window of the old Antique Furniture building across from Metro A Coffeehouse & Pub, this two-headed guy has a lot on his minds but no words to share his wisdom. He spends his free time watching the patrons of Metro, silently judging them.
windows to your soul
Keeping an eye on the corner of James Brown Blvd and Broad Street, this piece stays in line with the watching theme Boland has going with his other doodles. There’s a bit of irony here, with the doodle being titled “windows to your soul” and placed next to the road named after the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.
St. Julian Cox III is a visual journalist for The Augusta Press. Reach him at producers@theaugustapress.com.
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