Whilst out dog-walking with a friend one Saturday evening recently, our meandering took us alongside a river, and as we were walking along the path, we walked under a bridge, the flyover kind. There was inevitably some graffiti and I made some disparaging comments about how I didn't really get graffiti and how I couldn't see it as urban art, even if some people do, etc, etc. However, I soon changed my mind, as I came upon some more, which you can see above and to the left. Clearly I am a sucker for something cute, which this obviously is, but there was also a bit more to it than that. It was accompanied by a message about how migration is not a crime, and given Paddington's epic journey from Darkest Peru to West London, it seemed rather apt.
2 comments:
wow! i didn't even realise that was graffiti at first! (grafitti? graffiti? i always try to remember how its spelt...)
that really does give some respectability to grafiti. well, respectability is not quite the right word (you can see i've been working on "respect" at the moment!) but you know what i mean.
I totally do. As I said, I was being all "oh, I just don't buy all this it's art nonsense" and then I saw that one and I just thought "yeah, OK, that works"
Glad you like it. :)
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