UK street artist “Pahnl” (a hybridization of “panel” taken from “comic panel”) has been busy in the last nine years. An avid stenciler, Pahnl’s aim is to “make my work interact with its environment … In the end, though, all I want to do is make people smile.” Boasting an impressive showing at exhibitions and events globally, from the UK to Australia to Brazil, one of Pahnl’s 2010 projects, called “Nowhere Near Here,” is a real dog’s tale—a stop-motion animation set to the haunting Royksopp tune “What Else Is There?” using light and stencils with long-exposure photography that follows a pup around the city at night, living his doggy life, chasing birds, encountering a cat or three, and yes, “introducing” himself to another canine companion. Pahnl reports that over 300 hours and 200 stencils were spent making “Nowhere Near Here.”
[quote] Through the course of shooting ‘Nowhere Near Here,’ I have dealt with curious drunks, a dog almost peeing on the camera … the endlessly suspicious police and even someone nearly running off with a tripod.” [/quote]
