below: Let’s make peace with this nightmare – “Facciamo pace con glu incubi”. She is one of a few paper paste-ups that appear together on a section of wall in Naples (via Santa Maria di Constantinopoli)
below: This is that wall
below: This purple and black watercolour portrait is also included.
below: As are these women and their big yellow flower.
below: Immediately beside the above wall is this little Exit Enter figure and its bright red heart.
below: More red – this time on the other side of the wall.
There was far too much interesting graffiti and urban art seen in Naples to squeeze it all into one post. I have posted some previously and this post attempts to “finish” what I have from February 2024 – before I go back to Naples. Most of these images were taken while exploring the streets of the Spanish Quarter (Quartieri Spagnoli)
below: Electric! … but unplugged.
below: La Ditta Fortunato (The Lucky Company)
below: Zelda enshrined
below: Dancing in the dark
below: Superwomen sharing a pizza, street art by LiDieSis
below: Couple, staring into each other’s eyes.
below: A street scene in the Spanish Quarter
below: Graffiti paper wheatpaste by Lingual (I think that’s what it says), a man’s portrait in grey tones, with two small green snakes slithering out of his mouth. Is this a political statement? He’s designed like an antique stone bust and carefully positioned on top of a real stone plaque on a wall in Naples
below: Graffiti cat
below: Like the image above, here is another strange woman sniffing flower parts
below: More than one person has left their shoes here…. A runner with a stopwatch in lieu of a head.
below: Very big hands, skinny arms and legs, and a puffball rabbit tail?
below: A small section of Vico Toto where there are some paintings that pay tribute to Totò, the stage name of an Italian actor Antonio “Totò” De Curtis (1898-1967). You can see more of the works here, Toto and friends, an earlier blog post.
below: Life is short
below: Maradona (1960-2020) was a football hero to many and references to him are all over Naples. For more Maradona and football graffiti in Naples see “Football and the ‘cult’ of Maradona“
below: Let your phone blind you and suck your brains out! Graffiti by Inserra.
below: “Sempre la… stressa… cosa” or, in English, “Always there….stress… what” as he tries to balance a precarious load of chair, tire, fan, wine bottle, and more.
below: Punk chicken – except, don’t those feet look like a humn hand??
below: Outstretched hands encircle a shiny orb in a paper wheatpaste by Vivia Cirillo.
below: “mmm”Il faccio mordere” or “I’ll make him bite”
below: Monochrome portrait of a local rapper, Geolier (Emanuele Palumbo), who is from the Gescal neighborhood of Naples. It was painted by Salvatore Iodice.
below: Sophia Loren serves up a pizza and on the right is, apparently, San Gennaro – On September 19, 305 AD, the Bishop of Benevento, Gennaro, died in Pozzuoli, martyred along with 6 others. As for the fellow in the middle – I don’t know!
below: Cartoonish interaction between telephone and eyepiece, only a fragment remains.
below: Keyboard player
below: Cyop and Kaf painting high up on a wall. There are many examples of their work on the walls of Napoli! For more images, see Cyop & Kaf in Naples blogpost
Encrypto Project #2 was a collaboration between four artists, URSH, Brody X, Fikaris, and Baxter. It consists of a series of black and white paintings together on a wall in Abbotsford (Melbourne). Each painting is monochromatic and they are all abstract (except for the black figure by Michael Fikaris at the right end of the series, immediately below). It was painted in 2023.
below: Most of the series, along the side of a house and then the back fence,
below: The black figure with the big nose in the bottom sticker looks a lot like the man in the panel at the righthand end of the wall!
below: A well dressed lizard hangs out in the alley too!
A collection of faces that I saw as I walked around Collingwood one summer day.
below: She looks down on the parking lot.
below: Artist LING painted this image of Patrick Coyle on the side of the Albion Hotel. Coyle was the original owner of that hotel.
below: mmm
below: An older portrait by Adnate graces a small brick wall.
below: There is another, much larger, Adnate mural nearby. This apartment building on Wellington Street was painted in 2018. I wrote a blog post about it a few years ago – Four Adnate Faces, Dec 2018
below: On the left, is a portrait by Vince Moloney. Three little yellow characters by dscreet are on the door to the right.
below: Another portrait by LING, this time it’s Alf Stewart who stars in ‘Home and Away’, an Australian soap opera.
below: Michelangelo on a wood fence.
below: It almost looks like someone is playing “Peek a Boo” although I am sure that the two faces were not painted at the same time, or by the same person.
below: Drew in bright colours
below: One of the uglier faces that you will see today…
below: With visions of palm trees in front of his face – a blue skull by Callum Preston
On the south side of Danforth, near Bowden Ave.., there is an alley….
below: Looking west to Bowden Avenue. There are a few street art pieces that have been painted in the past couple of years.
below: Natasha Dichpan painted this young woman and wolf (dog?). It’s probably a dog but for some reason I’d like to think that it was a wolf.
below: The multicoloured swirls of dots and splotches are by Andre Castro.
below: A young woman with flowing pink hair, pointy elf-like ears, and many eyes, rides on a blue pelican (or at least a bird with a big beak), painted by Katrina Canendo in summer of 2021. Pink mushrooms in blue foilage on the accompanying door.
below: She also seems to have an extra arm as well as an eye on the back of her hand. She ate the mushrooms?
below: By Sasha Fonkatz, the only man on the block. The calligraphy in the black box on the right says: “Sometimes you have to be a lion to be the lamb that you are” (a Dave Chapelle quote). I am not sure what the whole story is surrounding the pink faced man, but the first two lines start “A true community is not just about …”
below: by Amani Muhammad, blues…. blue woman, blue pigeon, and blue butterflies among the pink and red flowers
below: Another Katrina Canendo piece, this time from April 2022. On the sidewalk on Bowden Street with Danforth Church in the background. Once called Chester Baptist Church, the building was completed in two stages. The original building was built in 1911 while a newer addition fronting onto Danforth was added in 1931.
below: Bowden Ave. The street is named after John Wilson Bowden, a builder who purchased land in the area in 1858 and subdivided it in 1871.
below: Behind the church
To the west of Bowden there are a couple of garage doors that have been painted but that was long ago. Some have been tagged over.
below: Long ago as in 2012 which is when this double garage was painted – CHEST on one side with Magical Mystery Tour and RASR on the other with Imagine. Beatles fans I presume.
There was not a lot of street art in this central Melbourne alley but I decided to give it its own blog post anyhow.
below: A cat and a dog… and then someone added “woof” and “meow”. Clever, right? Groan. The cat stencil was created by Melbourne artist King of the Clowder aka Night Krawler.
below: Robobop is Robert Scholten – ink drawing of a mask in two pieces.
My previous post was also about a walk down a section of Toronto’s Graffiti Alley (Spadina to Portland). This post is from the same walk – because there were so many images that I wanted to share, I decided to divide the fun into two parts. This second part takes a closer look at some of the smaller pieces.
below: Peeling paper hands…. A 33wallflower33 group of three women in their dashing outfits … and a charming man with devil’s horns and red glasses.
below: Although it’s getting more difficult to see, there’s a Poser rabbit by the door. The door is disappearing behind a layer or two of paper and paint.
below: There is a little pink stikman on the light above the door.
below: Once upon a time this skinny little guy was pink but ooops, a layer of paint and now he’s prematurely grey.
below: In her face – another stikman
below: Last stikman for today… sometimes you find them tucked away in hard to see places.
below: Party line? Four hands phone.
below: A bleeding heart, a pansy flower, and a woman with a red hat and big ear rings.
below: Polly wants a cracker before she takes over the world, or at least that’s what she told me.
below: A young woman with blue lipstick and jagged pink make up on her cheeks. A spiked collar is around her neck. Make of it what you will.
below: Another young woman, this time she’s a little softer (at least in appearance) – drawn by Catchoo.
below: Multiple Sailor dudes (trp613) in two varieties hanging out with a happy little catchoo critter and its smiley daisy balloon.
below: “Save me”!
below: It looks like catchoo has been busy.
below: More of that wall.
below: Darth Vader makes an appearance too. Who’s that man peeking through the hole?
below: One flower sprouts a bald person while the other produces a sunny orb. That black octopus doesn’t look very happy – perhaps in this winter weather it needs more than just a woolly toque.
below: There are those women again!
below: Dogma slaps standing tall in his puffy jacket and bright red mitts.
below: Riding a D7606 crayon – T-bonez always finds new adventures.
below: A collaboration between Tamm Shinzo and April Showers Art produced this little round piece – sitting on top of the clouds with the moon shining over her shoulder.
below: Cryptid Supremacy – a rat with a very long tail
below: While we’re dealing with rats – Squee! They are all fleeing from an NYC trash can. Don’t litter!
below: Another small collection – Catchoo shows up on a soy sauce bottle while a Sentient Cookie (aka Cecil Tian) character gets taped to the wall… remember that banana?! And last, in the top left corner, a Cartoon Car Slaps.
below: The Corporation and a hungry little black bird.
Eyes on the Streets 