A thread for posting street art you see regularly on your commute in your neighborhood that has made it seep into your subconscious. Could be your favorite, one that mystifies or annoys you.
I’ll kick things off with this mural that’s been staring in at me from outside my bedroom.
Because I see it every day, I can’t help but toy with possible interpretations (A cracked, weary smile forced to be worn by the ubiquitous service industry due to a decline in manufacturing and the new indentured servitude enforced by harsh and systemic inequality?)
Any Brooklyn locals know anything about the tags R2B, C2J or OES ARC 2015?
There’s a lot of great mural-scale graffiti in the neighborhood where I work, because every year they host a street art festival called Powwow Hawaii. I’ll take a few pics of some favorites and put them up later today.
Here’s a selection of a few more from an afternoon stroll around the neighborhood. There are some pretty new ones - at a couple spots I found different ones than I was expecting to see there.
Very new, I was expecting to snap something totally different here. I’m not sure if the drips are accidental or intentional, or an accident turned into the artist’s intention. The bottom right swimmer is painting the shark, or perhaps the whole mural.
I collect and write regularly about graffiti and street art. That’s in part because I see so much around where I work. A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to meet a local artist working on this mural.
