Meta-Art Criticism
A graffitti artist named DeLaVega has been leaving uplifting chalk messages and drawings on the sidewalk in my neighborhood for many years. To see some of his work, try here:
www.flickr.com/photos/tags/delavega/
This weekend, someone went on a DeLaVega-inspired chalking spree.
Calling themselves "Gloom", they left messages like "The Commodification of Trite Spiritual Aphorisms is a Crime", and the above. I passed it and laughed, but had to take a photo an hour later when I saw that this message had subsequently been punctuated by an enormous dog turd (discretely diffused and blurred so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of Flickrites).
Somehow this seemed appropriate to my experience on Flickr of the last few days...
Meta-Art Criticism
A graffitti artist named DeLaVega has been leaving uplifting chalk messages and drawings on the sidewalk in my neighborhood for many years. To see some of his work, try here:
www.flickr.com/photos/tags/delavega/
This weekend, someone went on a DeLaVega-inspired chalking spree.
Calling themselves "Gloom", they left messages like "The Commodification of Trite Spiritual Aphorisms is a Crime", and the above. I passed it and laughed, but had to take a photo an hour later when I saw that this message had subsequently been punctuated by an enormous dog turd (discretely diffused and blurred so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of Flickrites).
Somehow this seemed appropriate to my experience on Flickr of the last few days...