Italian artist Paolo Cirio creates figures in the public sphere using Google Street View. You’ll find Paolo’s mark all over the world — from New York to London to Berlin — in a series called Street Ghosts.

In an effort to draw attention to Google privacy issues, Paolo started to plaster images on walls in Brooklyn before moving onto other major cities.

To create these creations, this street artist prints out life-size versions of people and wheat pastes their likeness onto the wall. While it may seem easy to create these figures, the thought is a bit more complex. Of his work, Paolo says:

I exposed the specters of Google’s eternal realm of private, misappropriated data: the bodies of people captured by Google’s Street View cameras, whose ghostly, virtual presence I marked in Street Art fashion at the precise spot in the real world where they were photographed.

Paolo plans to move onto other countries in the next couple months. Beware: you may see your ghost very soon.

— Stew

(Photo Credit: Paolo Cirio)