“Lurking” is a web project by a Toronto based artist called Sholem Krishtalka. On his tumblr Krishtalka regularly publishes new works of a series of small sized drawings based on his friends’ Facebook picutures. He explains the idea behind the project like this: “The wide usage of Facebook has borne a new vernacular meaning for the verb ‘to lurk’. In this new coinage, ‘to lurk someone’ is to troll through their Facebook photos, to stalk them, to investigate their visual history. I found myself spending greater and greater amounts of time doing precisely this, and I wanted to make a record of it as a means of mapping my community, and also (perhaps less nobly) to in some way justify my Facebook procrastination.” Here are a couple of drawings from the “Lurking”-series, you find many more of them here and more information about the artists as well as works from other projects and writings on his website. Found on Colin Quinn’s tumblr (which I shamefully have forgotten when I did my list of my favourite tumblrs).
(c) Sholem Krishtalka
