I promise--this is the last rat related post ever. But dig this guy--he's got the cigarette, he's got the shovel, he's got that weird shit on his back. I'm convinced there are two images in there, but I can't untangle the second.Also--it is stenciled in a most untraveled area, at the base of a lamp pole [about six inches off the ground] on the east side of the Augusta/90-94 off ramp walkway.
Got that? It's a sidewalk that parallels the northbound off-ramp and leads to a landscaped no-mans-land between the highway and X Street. Trees are planted there, homeless folks camp out deeper into the sloping triangle of highway land. A couple of times over a summer you'll see a guy on a good size riding mower cutting at a dangerous angle. It's a benign pubic space associated with the highway.
And there is a street light just past the off-ramp and entering the 'landscaped' area. The trees are all the same municipal make and model; same height--about fifteen feet.
Two cast aluminum pieces are bolted at the streetlights base. They are trim pieces with a purpose. Should one put the five minutes it would require to separate the square base covers, you'd find the electrical.
For some reason and by God knows what hipster-artist, this stencil was left. Whoever he is, I want more in this style, nearly hidden.
2 comments:
Looks like the work of Banksy to me.
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I think this is very cool as well. Particularly like the choice to put it in an unusual place, allowing for a bit of mystery in its discovery as well as the intrigue of the image itself.
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