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SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA STREET ART: ELECTRIC

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3apr19. San Jose, Costa Rica.

CARTAGO, COSTA RICA STREET ART: DIOSES ANIMALES

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“My life has been a lie! God is dead! The government’s lame! Thanksgiving is about killing Indians! Jesus wasn’t born on Christmas! They moved the date, it was a pagan holiday!”
– Morty Jr. / Rick and Morty, Season 1: Raising Gazorpazorp Rick by SEA 13 https://www.instagram.com/m_sea13/

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30mar19. Cartago, Costa Rica. 

JACÓ, COSTA RICA: LIFE’S BETTER IN BOARDSHORTS

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18mar19. Jacó, Costa Rica.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA STREET ART & GRAFFITI: MAN, WOMAN, & PARROT

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8mar19. San Pedro, San Jose, Costa Rica.

 

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA: los domingos son para maria

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8mar2019. Sna Jose, Costa Rica.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA STREET ART & GRAFFITI: GRAFFITI DE PURA VIDA !

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3mar19. San Jose, Costa Rica.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA: A SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE

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Sunday morning scenes at a street market

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A school built in 1890.

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My own mind is my own church. ~ Thomas Paine
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“A sense of humor is essentially a sense of perspective. It is an understanding that comes from a true sense of proportion. Humor is not a matter of laughing at things, but of understanding them. At its highest it is a part of understanding life. It is an ability to see ourselves as we are, and to smile at the comic figure that the biggest of us cuts in strutting across life’s stage.”
― Nivard Kinsella
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Hall of Justice
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In hotels we are invisible to our neighbors. 
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“Monsanto Kills.” ~ The worst company on Earth.

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On a skate ramp.

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The lives that lurk within…

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“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter–tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jungle in the city. Was lost, then I was found.

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3mar19. San Jose, Costa Rica.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA: HOW CAN I HELP YOU TODAY?

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20feb19. San Jose, Costa Rica.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA POLITIKS & GRAFFITI: “REBELLION”

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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: 

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On the very first day I arrived in San Jose, I saw this stencil on walls, on roads (literally, I was crossing the street, looked down, and this image was stenciled on the road!), and here at a bus stop. I researched to find out that this man is Oscar Arias. He is a former President of Costa Rica and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He’s been accused of sexual assault by a nuclear disarmament activist. VIOLADOR is RAPIST in Spanish. 
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These two stencils are about domestic violence and oppression of the poor. On the left: “If he insults you, he doesn’t love you. If he hits you, don’t stay.” On the right: “The rich abort the dying poor.” 
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“The revolution will be feminist or it will not be.” I take it to mean that the revolution must be run by women, because if it isn’t. then there won’t be one at all. 
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“There are bullets and good decisions.”
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“They infuse terror and want forgiveness.”
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“Welcome Migrants”
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“My body does not want your opinion.”
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“The rich abort the dying poor.”
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“Against patriarchal and capitalist violence, our deep rebellion.”
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“The earth is feminist.”
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I’m not sure about this translation: “Outside rosaries of our ovaries.” It definitely has something to do with telling men that they don’t make decisions for women and their bodies. 

11/12/13/14/15FEB2019 San Jose, Costa Rica.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA STREET ART: TRADICIONAL by SAN RAMON CREW

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15feb2019. San Jose, Costa Rica.