Art in the Park

Putting on the Finishing Touches 

A Passerby Checking out the Newly Painted Art Work

Almost Done? I Think

Give an Artist a canvas and their come up with something. Like these young graffiti artist did a few months back on a community collaboration where one artist starts a theme and another artist comes behind him or her to finish or touch up the others ones works. I always see a lot of Beatles influence in their work around here but this is the first time I saw Ray Charles.  Images shot in Brasilia, Brazil. No prizes or money was given out in the making of this mural.

Amazon People

Mural of an Indigenous Man

Well, I haven't met this man yet, but I hope to someday. This is a mural of a Native that lives in the Amazon, region of Brazil. There are an estimated number of about 200 tribes left with a population of about 300,000 people. Many of these Indigenous people have also migrated into urban populations over the last thirty to forty years. I have a friend here in Brasilia, who is from Belem, in the northeast region of the Amazon and her father is a native and her mother is Portuguese. She told me when she was young her father use to wear a feather in his nose like the man pictured here and that he was short like she is about five foot two.

Artist at Work

This young man was hard at work painting his mural for the city of Medellin. The bottom photo shows the draft he is working from. He was very happy to have his work on display for all to see. Next time I'm in town I'll be able to see the finished version.

Mural

Mural, Bogota, Colombia

I came across this Mural the other day and wanted to photograph it. I didn't realize at first that there was a man passed out at the bottom of it. I felt bad for the poor guy for I really don't like showing people at there low point, but it also a fact of life in every major city through out the world, some worst than others.