Some
parking lot walls in San Francisco get paint job after paint job after paint
job, and it doesn’t seem to stop.
Since
this is a public facing wall, the owners have to respond to the tagging before
The Letter Of The Law is taped to the doorway and a simple cover-up paint job
incurs the additional hassles of proving legal compliance.
If
only this wall could talk… the stories of late-night art-ops it could tell… of
graffiti aficionados cruising at the vampire hour armed only with stolen cans
of spray paint… lovers leaving an homage to the lost art of subversive
expression, bankers and insurance-company bureaucrats in disguise… angry about their
own success and resentful that creators of beauty and awareness are so
undervalued… ambitious artists hoping a
little notoriety will translate into lucrative sales to new celebrity art
collectors and museums bored with their bourgeois collections…
Some
of these visuals just might accompany some of those stories.
We
already know the reasons for erasing graffiti… but we remain in the dark about
the inspiration of those who create it.
These
photos show the same parking lot wall over a period of about 2 years.
The top 3 images were taken over a 3 day period last month.
The top 3 images were taken over a 3 day period last month.
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