Street Art

Creating art in a more public manner, has been on my mind a lot lately.

I live in a relatively small upstate New York town.
It's technically deemed a city, but..... really, its just a large town.
And as I drive around town, I often see spots where my mind envisions murals or sculptural installations. I see splashes of colorful designs wanting to be laid out on bare concrete, as I wait at a stop light, or pass under bridges.

It's the way my brain works. I often remember sitting in the backseat of my parents station wagon,  as a kid, watching the trees pass by one after another, after another and so on. And I would start to draw imaginary lines connecting them all, doing loops and words and touching down on the trees as they passed.

Placing more art out into the tucked away spots, or some old sign post crying out for some beautification is a wonderful thing. How could something like that not enhance the community in which we live?

The above picture was snapped on a day's wander through Lima Peru in early 2011.
Walking down towards the cliffs that overlook the Pacific Ocean.
I love the way the mouse's umbrella catches rain from a cloudy piece of paper already there.
And how the cats paws leak onto the sidwalk.
Or even the way the blue was painted onto the metal window grate.