What looks to be an abandoned house in Guayaquil that has some street art and graffiti on it. Some nice painting, some scribbles. Animals too – cat, dog, mouse, and bird.
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Keeping Mary Company
Like many corners in Rome, this one in Trastevere has a religious picture on the wall. Here you can see Mary, Jesus, and a couple of angels as well as ‘Ave Maria’ above the picture in what looks to be neon lights. This Mary is accompanied by the words Ricordo Delle Missioni Imperali Borromeo, Marzo MCMXLIX (i.e. 1949). Ricordo delle meaning “I remember”, or more loosely, In memory of”
Mary now has a lot of company.
below: Crying but still punk Eiknarf sticker as well as a “Volti Spenti” soulless man on his phone, or no face no ego, by Luther Posca
below: A black stencil of a woman with long hair and a red Thauma at the tip of what looks like a long green tail with little suction cups on the bottom.
below: A Jesus face, tifa toro on his cheek, and a cat by Guaro
below: Paste-ups and wheatpastes don’t last forever. 1. In the top right corner are two drawings by LUS57 of women doing things. One of them is vacuuming the universe – Saturn and the stars should be quite clean. 2. Little Qwerty pieces fun to find – this one with the yellow hoodie doesn’t seem like much but I think the bottom half is missing. 3. Last, the little red balloon is the top of a tiny Exitenter painting.
below: These are in better shape. 1. A papaya by Per Dispetto whose art centers around that fruit. 2. A large red and white cat mouth open wide and eating an origami cat whole by Krems. 3. The tree with its light green flowers was created by stelleconfuse. 4. Zeta’s little man in gold and black has a post-it note on this torso.. it’s bent so it’s not easy to read by the words ‘sempre’ and ‘indefinable’ are there and it was signed by someone called Jenny (I think!). Zeta’s instagram shows many variations on this man theme. 5. The little cat is “signed” but I can’t read the writing very well; it looks like BZQueen? and Confused Cat. 6. The two animals in the top right corner are a mystery.
below: 1. Mr. Minimal, superhero in his blue underpants and flowing cape. 2. A character out of science fiction or just outer space…?, by Winston Smith. 3. And last, Lovers by K2M.
below: Two more ladies hard at work by LUS57. Above them, God wants to undo his creation work in a play on Michelangelo’s famous painting on the the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
The next few are small pieces that I saw nearby but not on the corner with the above.
below: A dog stamp. A play on the Romulus and Remus symbol/statue that you see around Rome. Is there significance to the XXX? This is the work of Gu Tang Clan
The previous blog post was also about graffiti in Trastevere. You should be able to find it by scrolling down. If not, this is the link: Trastevere slaps
altered street signs, Florence
As you walk around Florence Italy, you can spot street signs that have been altered with witty additions of shapes and figures. Similar signs have been spotted in Madrid, London, and Paris. Most of them are the work of Clet Abraham but there are a few that were created by Yipi Yipi Yeah, or YYY for short. Here are a few that I saw in Florence early in January.
below: A policeman’s love
below: A goalie defending his net
below: Scrunching
below: Chiseling away the white bar.
below: Only two eyes seen because of a veil
below: A game of cat and mouse
below: Using a pair of scissors
below: A hanging brought to you by Yipi Yipi Yeah
below: Cupid’s arrow right on target
below: Smashing ice
another Casablanca wall
A low wall in the older part of the city… if I remember correctly it might be on one side of a taxi parking lot? As I was taking pictures, an older man stopped to talk to me about the paintings on the wall. I think that he said that a group of students painted it.
The mural is full of Casablanca scenes such as this image of the Hussan 2 mosque.
below: Typical Moroccan tile work.
below: Curly metal railings and grilles like this can be seen all over Morocco.
below: The Moroccan flag is a green star on a red background.
new murals on South Wood Street, Chicago
A couple of stretches of concrete wall in Pilsen have recently been opened up to street artists in Chicago. One of these is on South Wood Street immediately north of the railway tracks (by West 15th Street). This past week, August 2019, a group of artists painted the wall. This is a selection of the murals that now adorn that wall.
below: Some of the new murals
below: As you emerge from under the bridge, this is the first mural that you see on the west side of Wood Street.
below: Peace mural by @sob_e (aka Eliza Riley Delgado)
below: Warrior City Tribe by Mero
below: Breaking down walls and letting the rats and vermin out.
below: Two alligators (Crocodiles?), one break dancing and one stepping out in a hoodie and bling.
below: Sponge Bob Square Pants tries his hand at singing while Bart Simpson spins.
below: On the left is a mural by Yo Loco
below: by @All_CITY_COWBOY, helicopter, music, and mayhem in the city.
below: With the green lizard character standing by
Barcelona doors
Street art seen on doors in Barcelona Spain, April 2018
below: Vegan bunnies. One releases a caged bird and the other has scissors in her hair.
below: Cat and mouse by Cisco KSL who is also a tattoo artist. The mouse has a couple of vices. I wonder what the cat’s key will unlock?
below: She lives at 202 Carrer de L’Escorial
below: Reaching out
below: A bloody mess, a painting by Sarah Pitel – an American from Portland Oregon.
below: Cats? Cats with very long necks. (Ooops! Not a door).
below: It started with a street art piece by Arte Ignorante of a woman in blue tipping her hat with the girl in red beside her.
below: Handmade in Barcelona, the shoe maker at work, with a line of shoes above.
below: Black and white, two women looking at you.
below: BOB is on the right.
below: Pandora’s box and bright finger nails.
This post is also a “Thursday Doors” blog post. This is a weekly occurrence and a number of bloggers participate. If you are interested in doors in general and want to see more door themed blog posts, here is the link.
Quito Ecuador
There is a lot of street art in Quito. It covers a lot of concrete walls that are part of the city’s infrastructure (supports for elevated roads, walls around buildings, etc). Here is some that I saw in February 2018.
below: Two people, one inside sitting pretty in pink and one outside.
below: A bird in flight. One wing looks like flames while the other wing resembles water. Signed by yo-ho-ho.
below: Many, many faces in pink.
below: Part dragon and part fish?
below: A painting by BEGO
The next few paintings were on a wall surrounding an house that was falling down.
below: This is the last of the photos from the ruined building – note the broken bottles across the top of the wall. That’s very common in Quito… although electric fences seem to be replacing broken glass as a means of keeping trespassers out.
below: Crab (lobster?) hands
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below: Laughing and pointing
below: Someone stole an orange cone.
below: Covering his mouth and I don’t think that it’s because he’s coughing.
below: Me
below: Pasteup over his face, a mouse and a mousetrap
below: Another gorgeous bird. Signed by Pagach? (Pagache?)
below: Painted on a rusty metal gate. Reaching for the skull. I am not sure of the words but if it’s “ponte y las alas” that translates to ‘stand and the wings’ but there are more letters. Any ideas anyone? Painted by Aster in 2017.
below: Resiste
below: Graffiti behind the fence
below: Supay Corpus in a residential area.
below: Someone likes to paint underwear, men’s brief to be more specific.
below: A very realistic portrait of an old man with one green eye open.
And last, there were some word stencils….
below: #2mayo and “ecuador ama la vida” which is ‘ecuador, love life’ is now someone’s love note to Mina.
below: “Sigue to corazon & disfruta el viaje” which means “follow your heart and enjoy the trip”.
below: Natura Insurrecta? and “Mineria responsable cuento miserable”. The direct translation for the latter is “mining responsible, tale miserable”.
street art animals, Bristol
More Bristol street art
This time, focusing on those featuring animals
below: A debonair lion stands in the doorway, by Alex of lucas-antics
below: Another mural by Alex covers the front of The Little Shop on Cheltenham Road. This time, she has painted bunny rabbits and pineapples.
below: A red dinosaur
below: A bird mural by Aspire
below: Another Aspire bird, a robin on a tree branch. Beside it is an orange telephone box by D7606 (instagram)
below: Bite the hand that feeds you. Someone is missing an arm!… it looks like it might by Ronald McDonald’s arm?
below: The ice cream in the cone is looking horrified as the teeth and beak of a yellow bird-like creature hovers above him. There is also an owl that was painted by Dscreet (Australian). The words between the bottom two windows say Burning C which is a reference to Burning Candy Crew, the group that Dscreet once belonged to.
Jamaica at Hillgrove, Bristol
below: A panda finds a quiet corner under the street sign.
Hillgrove is a short street, two blocks long. It is dissected by Jamaica Street. On one corner is a large mural by Phlegm. A man looks through a telescope while sitting on the shoulders of a man who in turn is standing on stilts. One hand is holding the telescope while a bird on a rope is held by the other. A large red and white wave reminiscent of ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ by Katsushika Hokusai is the eye catching focus of the painting. It’s as if he’s looking to the future while standing on the shoulders of giants (masters).
below: A stenciled cat walks on the sidewalk…. the work of Beastie.
below: A natural woman of sorts – with plants, vines and roots and the bugs and butterflies that depend on them.
on Tallinn walls
Tallinn is the capital city of the small Baltic country Estonia. I was only there for a short time but I did find some street art in the old town and in Kalamaja.
below: The young person on the right is the work of @minaJaLydia. I you look closely, there are two tiny faces to the right of the knees.
below: I am calling this one, The Warrior and his Social Media Hedgehog. They are the work of Edward von Longus
below: Close up of the hedgehog. It needs time in the limelight too.
below: Whatever he was writing on the wall is long gone. This is another work by Edward von Longus.
below: A green and blue planet Earth between two animals (a cat and a ?), by multistab
below: A couple of couples by Linna Sokk but with the theme of domestic violence.
below: Something’s stuck to his forehead… looks like a sheep to me.
below: Not your average Easter Bunny!
below: A multi talented, multi handed, multi tasking elephant!
below: This wall is difficult to see because of the fence – it is part of the old fortress/prison that is no longer open to visitors.
below: The next two are by the same artist, Lume, of LDK crew who is from Naples Italy.
below: In case you can’t read it, the sign that Darth Vader is holding says: “Help me. I need $$$ to build a death star.”