sheep | Eyes on the Streets

…. all the work of Clet Abraham

below: David being more modest than usual.

modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence, white bar is modesty for Michaelangelo's David statue

below: Video vultures

modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence, vulture sitting on top of white bar, head of vulture is a video camera

below: Cupid’s arrow hits it’s target

below: Strangulation by arrows

below: Guitar smashing frenzy

modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence, smashing guitar

below: Counting sheep – not a good time to fall asleep!

modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence, sheep jumping over white bar

below: Breaking through the ceiling

below: Being crushed by a nasty white bar.

modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence,

below: More nastiness, grabbing and squeezing this time.

modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence, black figure being held back

below: As the sun breaks through the clouds…

modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence, sun breaking through the cloud cover

below: Like weeds growing through crack in the pavement..

daisy flower frowing through white bar,modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence,

below: Two for one! Stop the bombs, guitar hero.

two modified traffic signs, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence, T in Stop sign becomes a bomb, white bar in other sign becomes a guitar

below: Yuck!

modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence, bird crapping on white bar

below: Holding onto the bar (faded, worn, from the original black hand)

modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence,

below: Stuck

below: Hot!

modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence, fire and flames

below: This is one of the signs that I saw in Florence back in 2020. The policeman has faded since then as have the two little red hearts that he is looking at. A better copy of the image can be seen in altered street signs, Florence

modified traffic sign, graffiti, by Clet Abraham, in Florence, policeman

Abraham is from Florence but his work can be seen in a number of places (along with others who have used traffic signs as their canvas). I have posted images from Madrid , and Paris in past years.

Photos taken February 2026

Little animals, big animals.
Pasted, painted and stenciled graffiti animals.
Real animals and those just imagined.
All on the walls of Paris.

below: A very realistic tiger walks towards you. Painted by mosko.

pasteup graffiti of a very realistic tiger drawn in oranges and black, almost life size, walking directly at the viewer

below: Another mosko creation, a leopard.

pasteup graffiti of a very realistic leopard drawn in oranges and black, almost life size, walking directly at the viewer

below: What cows order when they stop for fast food. Human meat burger with a side of human finger nibblets. I wonder if he’ll order his burger with meadow grass or cheese?
a poster showing a cow in a fast food restaurant ordering a human meat burger. Another cow is behind the cash register. Pictures of items on the menu are above the cashier. Done in cartoon style

below: A pink fish dreamily swims past.

big pink fish graffiti, with a half open eye and a moustache

below: There’s a zebra under the window.

stencil graffiti of a greenish coloured striped zebra

below: A very tall mural of a blue and white long-necked bird. Un héron bleuté, painted by STEW in the Chinatown area of Paris (13th arrd.)

very large mural on the side of an apartment building of a large blue and grey bird with a long neck. either a heron or a crane

below: A close up view of the bottom of STEW’s heron mural.

part of a larger mural, a white bird in flight, with a long nexk, surrounded by blue sky with a lot of flowers in the sky . The flowers are line drawings in yellows and white

below: An elephant head, and mouton white sheep above the cordonnerie

on the side of a beige concrete wall, two pieces of graffiti, one is an elephant's head and the other is a white sheep with black face and feet.

below: A pink and blue teddy with a few bits missing. It seems to be passing something to the window. Amor! A creature stands under the cross.

a pink and blue teddy bear paste up pon a wall, partially torn. He's beside a window. on the other side of the window is a small red cross with the word amor written under it.

below: A wide mouthed big teethed snake

two graffiti pieces on a wall, a blue and silver diamond shape an a green snake

below: A pink cat

stencil of a realistic grey and black cat on a pink wall

below: Two birds standing together

reddish stencil graffiti of two birds standing beside each other

below: The next two may not be animals, but they certainly aren’t human either. Two creatures just playing tunes and boarding on by. The first is labelled Les Impressionoures.

on a metal box on the sidewalk pavement beside a street, a red creature with a band aid on its cheek rides on a skateboard while holding a ghetto blaster near its ear . The words les impressionoures is written below him