I love graffiti art. There's an ideal among artists that art should be a pure representation of the artist's ideas and feelings totally unbiased by the need to please an observer or sell the art. Some even argue that art is only of its time and does not need to be preserved for the future where it will be viewed out of original context. The most radical form of this idea is that the art should not be consummated at all, but the need to survive seems to allow the artist to record the idea as in a journal and sell the record of the idea ("Conceptual Art"). Graffiti art embodies much of the core idea: it is transitory and not done for sale; so it is "pure" in its motivation for expression. They are after all naive artists who are unaware of the elite intelletual extremes of purity. -tv
Tommy, I don't know if you'd want to travel 3 hours into Massachusetts for this. We had been in the woods looking for vernal pools when I spotted it. I'll try to get out there again for some better shots so that you can see if it's worth your while. I don't know who did it, but I've heard that there are other examples scattered along the dirt roads that wind back and forth under the Mass Pike. Are you into graffiti art?
--Mary Anne
Mary Anne, pls let us know where is this. I may trek out there to see it better. Some graffitti art is quite incredible and this has some unusual elements, esp the flowers. -tv
It's true... we can go to the jails and prisons and ask them to paint us another original. LOL! Sorry...I'm just making a joke about illegal graffiti. I actually think this is really pretty and an artist is the one who would see it and capture it for us. ~Lydia
