“Words can be twisted into any shape.”
Karen Marie Moning
I’m pretty sure that Karen Moning wasn’t thinking of graffity and street art when she wrote this line but the words on these walls are definitely twisted.
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Words, Words, Words! Show Me!
Tag: graffiti
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Lens-Artist Challenge asks for things on display. I have often shown beautiful graffiti and murals on display on walls and houses. But simple tags are also on display almost everywhere. I can’t read these, I guess they are proper tags, i.e. names. But I like the overall composition and colours.
The wall originally just featured a quote by the all-round talent and master aphorism writer Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a native of the area: “If you are in love with yourself you have at least the advantage that you will not have many rivals in your love.” The empty space below immediately attracted sprayers who wanted their messages on display, political (F** nazis; F** AFD, an extreme rightwing political party), local about bringing flowers to the suburb, and simple smileys and tags.
This almost looks like an Egyptian script: “Woman, I give you flowers then we move into a house and there will be peace.” Plus a few extra choice words.
This one is easier to read but who is Paul?!
This one is readable, comprehensible, and to some extent understandable: “Beat up fascists!!”
What’s your take on putting your opinions on display like this? Open mind – or …
… on the other side of the extreme?
Lens-Artists Challenge: On Display
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Artful Confusion
This graffiti wall in the middle of a meadow with an undecipherable word and an almost Sherlock Holmes like character in the middle (notice the cap!) is the closest I could come to a visual representation of bargleflooping. The opposite of bargleflooping might be babel fishing (babel fish = the universal translator) which is a life form not an AI.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Bargleflooping
What Children Want
This mural was created by a school class with many refugee students (hence the German is not perfect).
On this part the children wrote their wishes:
“Children should not fight in wars but go to school.” “I don’t like it when children are fighting amongst each other.” “All children should have a home.” “For me it’s most important to play with friends.” ” I wish for all children to be protected.”
I Needed a Distraction.
It worked. Word!
I was sitting in a training session and was bored. I looked out of the window. This is what I saw:
Three words.. HAVE I StUCK. Or possibly shuck. English words in a German setting. Intriguing.
As hard as I tried I couldn’t see more, not even during the break. After class I did a bit of recon and yes, I found more of the words, the whole wall, a little hut on a flat roof and – a poem. Only page one, though.
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The Moment the Crown Descends on the Head
of the new king (or queen or quing or, in this case, cang).
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Coronation
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Archived Trios
I’ve been sick for almost two weeks. Too sick to go to school but well enough to crawl out of bed and plonk myself in front of the computer. I’ve used the time to sort archived photos. And came upon a few older trios.
Believe it or not – this was in March 2003. Snow like this is not a common occurrence in the Odenwald, let alone in springtime.
An old graffiti / mural. Even though old and dirty it still conveys a joyful mood.
And three birds on a wall – I’m sure there are many variations of this motive.
Five in February
rotational: cherry bloom – cherry fruit – food at the market extant: the whole wall has been redone with different graffiti and pictures, the monkey is the only familiar face left Thursday Special in February
pictures imperfect blog 