Urban Aesthetics (Green Notebook Entry)

Graffity is an urban art, eminently a part of citylife because of its resemblance to what you might experience walking along any crowded street downtown. The colors are smeared on the hard surface; they seem to blur but, taking a closer look, drops of paint smear and spoil the design. The same thing happens in the city. One is flooded with so many visual and auditory impressions that images and emotions blur. The cacophony of sounds and myriad visual impressions can only become a well-defined design from afar, in recollection. Some argue that graffitis spoil the urban scenario. However, the city is hardly ever an ode to cleanliness and only seldom an objectively aesthetic environment. Nonetheless, its sordidness, its dirt, floors all attempt at establishing artistic limitations. Its colorful impressions cover the surface of the mind like so many sprayed paintings, offering a unique view of the whole.

texto - ya / fotografía - gakk