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For the Love of Stencils

Oh my…I was just tipped off to a goldmine of outstanding stencil art by an artist named Andrea Michaelsson. If you love stencils like I love stencils, go check out Andrea’s flickr page…but don’t blame me if you lose track of the time and end up running late. Related Posts The Stencil Art of Logan [...]

The Street Art of Kislow

Welcome to the world of Ukrainian artist Kislow. I’m not sure what’s going on in his images, but I’d love to know the stories behind them. The characters look like they escaped from a 19th century book of fairy tales, went through some kind of anthropomorphic transformation, and repositioned themselves on modern-day walls; brilliantly connecting [...]

Graphic Surgery

There is something so appealing about all of the lines, and all of the organized disorder found in the work of Amsterdam based artists Erris Huigens and Gysbert Zijlstra, who go by the name Graphic Surgery. Their work is so stark, and angular, and dimensional. I love it. After you have sufficiently absorbed the precision [...]

That’s Why They Call It The Blues

I’ve always marveled at the blues, and the power that a sad song has to transport the singer and listener from a place of pain, to a place of beauty. To share our pain is such a deeply human act that allows us to better see the connections that we have to each other, and [...]

BLU Takes on Toxic Waste

Concerned about the toxic waste that is being trucked into southern Italy, street artist BLU created an amazing (and horrifying) piece that illustrates the beauty of the Italian olive groves and ceramic work while revealing the truth of what’s going on behind the beauty; that the area is being used as a toxic drop-off, with [...]

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