I walk around this city a lot with my little camera always in my pocket. I see my city of Santa Fe, differently. The artwork and graffiti I find on the street is more exciting than what I currently see inside most of the galleries and museums in town. It's spontaneous and temporary. I try to capture it before it disappears forever.
Lately, I have been leaving the city to explore the natural world...

Showing posts with label vandalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vandalism. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Re-Claim The Streets

 
 
More stencils by the artist known as VISI.
 
 
 Found on Old Santa Fe Trail.
 
Spotted on Guadalupe @ Paseo de Peralta.
 
Take art and expression out of the galleries and museums and
bring it to the streets!
 
 


Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Walk This Way!

 
      
 
Captured these guys at the intersections of Cerrillos Road and Don Gaspar on the
Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe.  When you do as much walking as I do around the city you
really have to watch crossing the streets here.  Even when pedestrians have the right of way,
they might end up like one of these little guys stenciled on the cross walk signals. 



Monday, February 10, 2014

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Friday, February 7, 2014

Whole Hearted

 
People hanging out one summer night in
front of Evangelo's at Galisteo and West San Francisco.
Somebody probably nervously scratched this into the paint
as they smoked a cigarette out side or talked on their
cellphone to create this work of art.
 

 


Friday, January 31, 2014

Art is a Weapon

 This person VISI goes around town, probably in the early hours of
the morning and sprays their stencils on to random ugly things, like utility
boxes and big hunks of concrete.  It always gets painted over, but I have been
lucky to document a few of their pieces.  This one was found outside
The Hotel Santa Fe on Manhattan and Guadalupe.


Thursday, January 30, 2014

You Are Loved

Dumpster Diver

Someone loves you so much, that they wrote it on this dumpster, but maybe it’s the dumpster that they love.  Or maybe they wrote this on a dumpster, so that when you are feeling down in the dumps as you walk down this lonely Santa Fe side street, you will see this message and know that you are loved.

El Diablo Dimas


 I spotted this gem yesterday at the intersection of Galisteo and the P.D.P. (Paseo De Peralta)

Love the looming shadow moving across his face. It makes him look all the more ominous looking.

(added 2/3/2014-Someone cleaned this vandalism up. Washed away the horns and goatee. 
The googly eyes are still there though.  I guess peeling them off would have damaged the sign even more.  I am so glad I captured this image before it was cleaned up. This is classic! Vandalism at it's finest.)