2 posts tagged “wall”
I really like Christopher Cousins' paintings *. They remind me of the ordinary staining and scarification of everyday stucco, concrete and plaster exterior walls that seems to me so poetic - these passive surfaces silently accumulating the stigmata of time and neglect, changing imperceptibly day by day. Natural graffiti is so much more poignant than the spraycan variety, I think... though I must say, sometimes a wall tagger really gets the feel of his/her medium:
From Ternua at Flickr. Also at Flickr, two great "natural wall poems" (my term) by a user called "only because mushroom asked me to" (gee, thanks, mushroom!). The first one has a link to a nice, big version, but the second one, very sadly doesn't.
* note:In the Christopher Cousins individual gallery pages, you can click the images to see large views; unfortunately in my browser they open in non-resizable windows too small to view the whole image. In Firefox, you can just drag the image to another page to see the whole thing.