You tell ‘em, Asheville!

Asheville, NC—11/24/09

Chicago’s street art fails to inspire as much as Iran’s. At least in the downtown area, where I saw surprisingly little of it in my short stay. Maybe I was just unobservant.

The only tag I found that seemed to have any point at all is reproduced below. If anyone knows what mp means here, let me know.

After the cut is the silliest street art I saw. I think it was drawn by someone who saw me coming and wanted to make me angry. The two drawings were, at least, immediately opposite each other in a walkway, so one can imagine them in a sort of dialogue.

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In the interest of the struggles, both ideological and political, occurring right now in Iran, F.M.I. would like to direct you to Leah Borromeo’s “Images For A New Age (Tehran Street Art)” and “Turban Warfare (Tehran Street Art pt. 2).

Street art is pure cultural expression, a pure assertion of self and situation in the tradition that disregards mankind’s theories of legality for a clean space to be, two-dimensionally.

That is to say, anti-aesthetics. Rock on, artists. Rock on, Leah.

“Sometimes the best presents you receive are the ones that show you people are not alone in fighting for what is right. Weapons of this battle? Feet. Minds. Paint. Words.”

“My friend is tired. Having spent the day erecting over 400 street pieces throughout Tehran’s concrete, steel, and rage-lined arteries. Having run away from angry men on motorcycles wielding batons towards angry men wearing green and throwing rocks.”