Saturday 2 June 2012

Graffiti

Here's the second new graffiti post. There's been good stuff on Scrutton Street, Curtain Road and Christina Street before - examples here and here - but this is the first time I've seen someone use that stretch of wall for one continuous scene. I've tried to capture the full effect by stitching my photographs together, (I'm currently using GIMP for tasks like this); the images below are larger than I'd normally upload so click on them to get a better look at the details:




I feel I may be missing a lot of references in all of this. I recognise tributes to Moebius and Adam Yauch in the Curtain Road section (middle image) and the Scrutton Street section (top image) looks like it might be a John Carter of Mars scene. But what about the pointy eared woman riding the horned cat or the big game hunter and the monster he's shot? Are these references to things I'm unfamiliar with or are they the inventions of the artist?

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