A painter who includes donated secrets in their works?

January 17, 2015 8:48 AM

I seem to recall reading about a contemporary artist (possibly a painter) a few years back who includes secrets that are donated by other people into their work, and perhaps encodes or conceals them in some way. Google's not turning up anything useful, so I'm turning to the hive mind instead - does that ring any bells for anyone?
posted by Chairboy to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

what do you mean by donated?
posted by momtips at 9:28 AM on January 17, 2015

Response by poster: That people share or pass secrets to the artist. My somewhat vague memory seems to suggest that the secrets might have been encoded in some way by the people they belonged to, so that the artist wouldn't know what they were either.
posted by Chairboy at 10:39 AM on January 17, 2015

This probably is not it, but this reminds me the mystery house on Fifth Ave.
posted by methroach at 11:06 AM on January 17, 2015 [1 favorite]

There's a traveling art exhibit as part of the collaborative PostSecret project.
posted by Iris Gambol at 11:06 AM on January 17, 2015 [1 favorite]

Problem Glyphs creates symbolic illustrations based on issues that people send in.
posted by Juliet Banana at 7:57 AM on January 18, 2015 [1 favorite]