Carlsbad Art and Culture

#2: Snyder Art Bathroom Walls

If you you visited my studio over the past 4 years, whether during one of my annual solo art shows, a ‘You Create the Art’ community art show or any of your random visits, you probably have added a doodle or message to my bathroom walls.

I do most of my thinking while taking very long hot showers, sitting on the can or staring into the mirror so the bathroom, as funny as it sounds, has always represented a place for inspiration…. and what better way to record an idea than with the immediate scribble on the nearest wall!

The bathroom also represents a place of privacy. An isolated room behind a locked door where actions undisclosed take place. Inhibitions are vanished like a stinky turd is flushed and sites unseen remain a mystery.

I offered my studio bathroom as, not only a place for inspiration, but also as a place where creative inhibitions could be ignored. I encouraged all who closed the door behind them to let their imagination run wild on my walls and guaranteed, if desired, that their creations would remain anonymous.

Over the years the walls of my studio bathroom evolved into a community canvas of expression. They fueled the continued fascination of the creative process in some and encouraged the act of making art in public for the first time without being judged, criticized or restricted in others.

Thanks for making my trips to the bathroom so inspiring!

– Bryan Snyder