Relógio
6emeia (SÃO and Leonardo Delafuente) · São Paulo, Brazil
Photo: as published on Street Art Utopia (26 February 2014).
One stripe of a pedestrian crossing has become a watch strap, and a round metal cover in the asphalt its face. The São Paulo duo 6emeia, Anderson Augusto (SÃO) and Leonardo Delafuente, painted this wristwatch on a city street. Source Source Source Checked
Seen by Jul 2012 — the only photograph of the work is the artists’ own and carries no date. It was online by 6 July 2012 (Blog do Desentupidor), which says it had already been published on 2 May 2010; we could not open that 2010 page. No later photo or report on its condition was found. Source Checked
💡 5 things to know
- A watch on the crossingWebUrbanist describes it as a manhole cover and a crosswalk bar that become a wristwatch, a street painting in São Paulo by 6EMEIA. Source Source Checked
- Two artists, one duo6emeia is Anderson Augusto, known as SÃO, and Leonardo Delafuente; both sources name the pair. Source Source Checked
- Not on wallsThe study says the duo’s trademark is to paint not on walls but on things people usually ignore, such as posts, sewer covers and drains. Source Reported
- Reading the street firstAsked in 2015 how they choose an object, the artists answered: “Tudo é levado em consideração, calçadas, asfalto, pedras ao redor, plantas, possíveis deformações do objeto” (everything is taken into account: sidewalks, asphalt, surrounding stones, plants, possible deformations of the object). Source Reported
- Two namesThe Arte 21 study captions the photo “Relógio” (Watch), with 6emeia as the image source; WebUrbanist calls it “Time to Get III”. We use Relógio: the study took the photo from the artists’ own website, where the file was named relogio.jpg. Source Source Conflicting
📍 Where it is
On a street in São Paulo, Brazil. The exact spot has not been published, so the button opens a map of the city. The Arte 21 study says many of the duo’s works are in Barra Funda, where they live, but it does not place this one. Source Source Checked
🗓️ Sightings
- 20126 Jul
Blog do Desentupidor: a watch on a crossing
- 20159 May
On 6emeia.com as relogio.jpg (Arte 21, note 13)
- 201627 Apr
WebUrbanist: “Time to Get III”
- 2021
Arte 21 study captions it “Relógio”
Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.
🗞️ In the sources
“A manhole cover and a crosswalk bar become a wristwatch in ‘Time to Get III,’ a street painting in São Paulo, Brazil by collective 6EMEIA.”
SA Rogers, WebUrbanist.
“Um relógio na faixa de segurança de pedestre.”
Translated: A watch on the pedestrian crossing. (One of the works the blog credits to 6emeia.)
“Figura 4: “Relógio” (6emeia). Fonte: 6emeia”
The study’s caption for the same photograph.
✅ The facts
- Title
- “Relógio” (Arte 21 caption) or “Time to Get III” (WebUrbanist) Source Source Conflicting
- Year
- Not published; the earliest dated publication we found is July 2012 Source Unconfirmed
🔗 Related
- Someone Painted the Manhole (10 Photos) — Street Art Utopia
- Street Art by SAO – A Collection — Street Art Utopia (2014)
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All sources & image credits
- Revista Arte 21 (Belas Artes, São Paulo), vol. 17, no. 2, 2021, pp. 40–57: study of 6emeia, figure 4
- weburbanist.com: Walk on the Wild Side: 13 Crosswalk Illusions & Interventions, page 2 (27 April 2016)
- desentupidor.blogspot.com: Graffiti em tampa de bueiro e ralo no Brasil (6 July 2012)
- Image: Relógio by 6emeia, as published on Street Art Utopia (26 February 2014); a 16:9 share image was made from it.
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