While walking through a neighborhood next to the church passing out fliers for VBS, we noticed some graffiti. Unlike the usual gang tagging I see all over Clovis and Fresno, this graffiti was more a statement than a nuisance. Today I did some browsing on some art sites I like to visit every now and then and found reverse graffiti. One of the featured artists was Alexandre Orion.
Brazilian artist Alexandre Orion turned a São Paulo transport tunnel into a kind of graphic charnel house, lined with skulls.
He created the images, the project's website explains, "by selectively scraping off layers of black soot deposited on those walls in the short life of this orifice of modernity."
2 comments:
Since the skulls were created by scraped off soot, does that mean they will soon be covered again with soot?
I personally don't know if I'd like going down a dark tunnel with skulls covering the walls.
Actually the fire department came out and hosed the walls off.
This artist chose to scrap off soot in skull designs as a statement about our impact on the enviroment.
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