Artist unknown but if I had to guess, maybe it’s Deniss Girenko? Based on yesterday’s “78 Men” post…the styles look similar. I don’t know why this piece is protected with plexiglass. Unless, this is Narva’s equivalent to Banksy…?
Narva, Estonia 🇪🇪 September 2021
💯 meters long mural based on a photograph from Paris in 1910 by an unknown photographer.
Narva, Estonia 🇪🇪 17sep21
🆀🆄🅰🆁🅰🅽🆃🅸🅽🅴 🆂🅴🆁🅸🅴🆂: 🅸🅽🆃🅴🆁🅽🅰🆃🅸🅾🅽🅰🅻 🆂🆃🆁🅴🅴🆃 🅰🆁🆃, 🅿🅰🆁🆃 8 ~ 1️⃣ @fidget_one , 🇬🇧 2️⃣ “We Can Do It!” By @tvboy “Tribute to all the health workers who have not spared themselves in these months and have worked with courage and dedication, as always, even if we have only realized now the fundamental importance they have in our lives…” 🇮🇹 3️⃣ “Dedicated to the tireless efforts of our front line, our essential workers, and to everyone doing their part to flatten the curve.” @ihatestencils , 🇨🇦 4️⃣ @patrickkanemcgregor , Denver, 🇺🇸 5️⃣ “The New Atomic Bomb 💣 🦠 “ by @suda love and @khalidalbaih in 🇸🇩 6️⃣ @raddingtonfalls , NYC, 🇺🇸 7️⃣ “Take Care 💔💔” by @ihatestencils , 🇨🇦 8️⃣ @stateoftheart_ “Rainbow 🌈 Boy 👦 “ , 🇬🇧 9️⃣ “Gift to the World 🌍” by @ezkstreetart , 🇫🇷 🔟 “Think about the old folks, please. Wear a mask 😷. This has been a Grampa City public message.” By @fumeroism , NYC, 🇺🇸
7jul19 Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
7may19. Orlando, Florida.
My journey to becoming a global documenter of graffiti and street art began back in Bogota, Colombia in 2012. It was all of the words scrawled and stenciled on the walls all over the city that prompted a keen interest within me. Two things happened: My Spanish improved quickly (because I had to go home and translate the words into English) and secondly, I got a sense almost overnight of the political issues of the disenfranchised elements of society within the country.
Realizing that graffiti had the power to communicate important messages and concerns of ordinary citizens, I began to pay close attention to the writings on the walls all over the world. It’s amazing what you can see when you look. It’s amazing what you can hear when you listen. It’s amazing what you can understand when you open your heart.
Once the foundation of my passion was set, my documentation progressed to all genres of street art including murals, stickers, sculptures, wheat pastes, everything and anything, that I judged to be making a statement of some kind in a public arena.
Since 2012, this blog has grown exponentially and one series in particular, the “Politiks of Graffiti” series featuring street art images I’ve collected around the world, combined with the weekly list covering the current state of the U.S. government compiled by activist Amy Siskind, has garnered a lot of interest and has a bit of a following on Twitter. It’s important to note that I cover all forms of political statements I discover in public art. It’s unfortunate that it just so happens, the current “P.O.G” is heavily laden with visual commentary of ’45.’ I would love for it to be something else, or something more, and I believe it will be, eventually.
In the future, I plan to do a book of “Graffiti and Global Politics,” or something like that, using the images I’ve collected around the world in the past decade.
That being said, I am currently in San Jose, Costa Rica and the walls are rife with political statements.
Please check them out below:
11/12/13/14/15FEB2019 San Jose, Costa Rica.
5apr17. East Village, NYC
For more information on this fantastic guy and artist, please visit his page: http://www.crispstreetart.com
12jul15. Tbilisi, Georgia.
27mar15. Kiev, Ukraine.
