Poe, Baltimore!
Above: On a building on E. Madison Street, art by Toven.
Street art in Baltimore comes and goes. (Like Buddhist sand mandalas or Chinese water calligraphy, see video below.)
It gets slapped up with wheat paste or painted using spray-cans or brushes. It get scrubbed off, painted over, fades with time or disappears when the building it’s made on collapses.
And sometimes, these street murals succumb to the wrecking ball – the fate in store Monday for a piece by Stefan Ways – 705 and 707 N. Patterson Park Ave. (We wrote about it yesterday.)
On the way back last week from photographing Ways’ soon-to-be-smashed raven mural, part of “Wallhunters: the Slumlord Project” we saw some other murals on E. Madison Street. The Poe piece is by the street artist Toven and the cluster looks like it’s part of the Viewfinders Youth Arts Leadership initiative. And while not part of the Slumlord Project, they caught our eye.
On East Madison Street, part of the Baltimore United Viewfinders project. (Photo by Fern Shen)
http://studymorechinese.com/photo/shanghai-street-writing-characters-in-the-park?xg_source=activity