2 posts tagged “walls”
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.
Small magical beings in my camera taking photos I don't know about. Seriously, I uploaded shots from my camera that I took some time ago, and I don't even remember shooting this one. So obviously it deserves some B&W slashing and eccentric framing. No? Oh well.
