SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA: HASTA LUEGO & PURA VIDA, TICOS !

The intensity of leaving is equal to the intensity of arriving. After 3 months of living in Costa Rica, I am moving on. My last day anywhere always has me feeling hollow, not fully earthbound. Some final images from my last day:

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unfortunately, i won’t see this piece completed. this is part 3 of progress shots.
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an image that will remain: the jewelry handcrafts lined up on the main calle every day.

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out of so many prolific graff writers, D U N K was the most prolific for me. i’ll always think of him when i think of san jose graffiti.

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jesus
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san jose is peppered with beautiful old colonial-style buildings 
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teatro nacional

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a D U N K sticker on the sidewalk
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jesus again
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a panaderia on avenida 2

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statue facing the post office – he was the president of costa rica from 1849-1859

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D U N K 

feb-apr2019. San Jose, Costa Rica.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA GRAFFITI: GUER

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THERE ARE SO MANY PROLIFIC GRAFFITI WRITERS IN SAN JOSE; THEIR PIECES ARE EVERYWHERE! HERE ARE 7 PIECES FROM GUER.

feb-apr2019. San Jose, Costa Rica.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA STREET ART: SELF IS NOT

HOW IT SEEMS TO ME
Ursula K. Le Guin

In the vast abyss before time, self
is not, and soul commingles
with mist, and rock, and light. In time,
soul brings the misty self to be.
Then slow time hardens self to stone
while ever lightening the soul,
till soul can loose its hold of self
and both are free and can return
to vastness and dissolve in light,
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work in progress by artists Gabriel Dumani and Hein.

San Jose, Costa Rica. 30apr19

 

SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA 🇨🇷 GRAFFITI: SICK

THERE ARE SO MANY PROLIFIC GRAFFITI WRITERS IN SAN JOSE; THEIR PIECES ARE EVERYWHERE! HERE ARE 10 PIECES FROM SICK.

feb-apr2019. San Jose, Costa rica.