Street art in the Azores is amazing. It’s fun, thoughtful, beautiful, political and literally everywhere, but it’s more street art than thoughtless graffiti. The image featured here was on a doorway near downtown Ponta Delgada and it seemed obvious that this was the Hindu god of graffiti. Ugly defacing graffiti is a growing blight inContinue reading “Todays Image • The Hindu God Of Graffiti”
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Todays Image • Artists Riding In A Convertible
On a street in Malaga, Spain we passed a cafe with a large roll-down door that was decorated with a mural showing four people riding in a convertible. Painted by Leah Bedford, it was an impressive piece of art deserving of some attention. Three of the featured artists we knew: The forth we couldn’t placeContinue reading “Todays Image • Artists Riding In A Convertible”
A Growing Concern In Barcelona
An Occassion For A Deep Dive Into Graffiti We have visited Barcelona a number of times over the past few years and love this city. We have been watching the reports on the Free Catalonia movement and the harsh reaction of the central Spanish government and have been concerned. This last visit revealed what weContinue reading “A Growing Concern In Barcelona”
Celebrating Street Art
Graffiti can be ugly and just vandalism but sometimes we discover real art on the streets. Browse some of our collection of street art soon to be the basis of a series of prints.
Graffiti Everywhere
I am not sure why but my camera is drawn to record graffiti as we travel. Some of it is incredible street art worthy of being recorded and saved, but much is just a defacing of public and private property. I have developed some opinions about why some places are rank with graffiti while othersContinue reading “Graffiti Everywhere”