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.



Lost Shoe

FOUND

One stretched out Manolo Blahnik shoe on Acequia Madre, near the corner of Garcia.
Lying in the gutter early one morning possibly left by a Cinderella on her way home
from a night of drinking on the town.
It's like a tiny boat in the bone dry desert, waiting for a stream of water to wash it away.



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.

Twinkie at The Roundhouse

 Someone just left it there, but that statue in the background

is keeping an eye on it.  I wonder what became of this spongy, yellow dessert.

Maybe a raven swooped down and ate it or like the song "MacArthur's Park," it was left out

and then it rained overnight and it melted onto the faux adobe wall and into

the grass.  The Twinkie kind of looks like it was made from adobe.



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.)