Again by accident, I came across an Railroad underpass with tons of graffiti at
Dongmen Road. I think the City of Tainan has just given up on this problem. And I can understand their
predicament. The tunnel isn't used much because there aren't many pedestrians in Tainan especially away from the main RR station. The walls are textured stone about 50 feet long, so washing is out of the question. And painting them over would just give the artist a new canvass. What to do?
I think these paints are
acrylics. No paint and run effort here.
Seems to have cartoon influences.
Why do I get the feeling that this artist does drugs?
Even the artist over paints his/her own work.
And there was another ten images that I could have shown from this one pedestrian underpass.
3 comments:
The artists have some talent, at least. It could be considered the "10% for art" in public places that we have funded here by the city, except these artists donate their time and materials.
Artist is not as much respected as engineers, Doctors, teachers and etc in Taiwan. I feel bad for those have to express their art in graffiti. It could have fame it and sell them in the park.
Maybe the rigorous Taiwan school system forces talent into alternative means.
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