(Continued from the previous post.)
At least two of the works on the graffiti wall included people wearing respiratory masks. Whether related to corona or to air pollution, I'm not sure. Perhaps both?
Not sure what this one is supposed to represent, but s/he does not look happy to me.
A lot of the the graffiti was of the "tag" kind (I think it's called??) - and did not really "speak" to me at all. But I suppose there may still be a lot of symbolism hidden there even if I'm unable to interpret it.
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6 comments:
Those look like gas masks! The graffiti is kind of frightening, not uplifting at all. I had never heard of tag graffiti, and had to look it up. So now I have learned something. We have a whole lot of it here, most attributed to gangs.
They look like wartime gas masks to me, and I agree, the face with the purple hair does not look exactly happy.
Ginny, I agree. Not the "uplifting" kind of art. But expressing emotion.
Meike, military kinds of protective masks have also been used here by staff in covid intensive care units, during this past strange year. Mobile army hospitals were also set up back in the spring, and the army has helped with transports etc. The whole pandemic situation has also many times been likened to warfare but against an invisible enemy (the virus). So that's why I think that the murals with the masks are likely to relate to the pandemic - and to how that alienates us from one another.
Some of those were very imaginative and well executed indeed.
Graham, a graffiti wall like that can indeed give some "food for thought" - whether one likes it or not!
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