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GRAFFITI / GRAFITTI: VANCOUVER - BEACHES #1!

Graffiti from brick wall, downtown east sideAbove: Ope - RELAX CREW

The Vancouver Beaches are a scene-and-a-half, any time of year, day or night. For a city so enthalled with the empty coming-and-going of trends and trendiness, the beaches afford a refuge for both party animals and navel-gazers alike.  We are reminded of the womb of the Earth mother and the primal heartbeat of the water and land making love, in their serene, unrushed ceremony.

Beaches are also places for murals. The properties lining this little uncivilized stretch of mortality on the west side of town (David Suzuki's pad included) simply call out for decoration for their uninspiring derrieres of concrete and mortar.

So here we present the Tagger's creed once again in all their dizzy splendor.

 

Graffiti on Jericho Beach, Vancouver, Canada

Graffiti on Jericho Beach, Vancouver, Canada

Graffiti on Jericho Beach, Vancouver, Canada
We move through Exuberance, Religion and Death in three easy stages.  With "Yiccy" on the left initiating us in the warmth and pre-historic celebration of FireSign Logic, the Born-Again's follow with their simple, conservative and futile message. "Amine(?)" continues with the universal Stars'n'Skull, a popular emblem in Biker-sanctioned kindergartens.  (Bikers never send their kids to Waldorf schools).

 

Ambling onward, westward, toward the affluent Yacht Club of Jericho, we come across a sea-worthy bomb which is difficult to explain in Layman's Terms.  It's at once nautical and visceral, bringing up visions of hardy popeyes being heaved about like flotsam on the breast of the the Ocean Goddess.  It's a beautiful piece really, worthy of preservation in the "Martime Museum".  In fact, SEZ creates a PARANORMAL VIEW of said piece, right here.

Mural Graffiti on Jericho Beach, Vancouver, Canada

 

Messy Graffiti on Jericho Beach, Vancouver, Canada

Some GRAFF is kind of cool just by itself with no further explanation. In fact, this piece is so.  Although it looks like a little "turf war" going on between two different bombs here. Nothing to write home about, but business as usual on the Turnpike of Human Expression.

 

Nothing new here.  There are all "interesting", lively, expressive pieces.  But oddly, none of them leaves you with any new wind in your bag.  I mean, hey, Logos are cool, but... what else do you know?

Downright funky Graffiti on Jericho Beach, Vancouver, Canada

 

Born-Again Christian Graffiti on Jericho Beach, Vancouver, Canada

"Test" is testing the lower limits of our communal perception with this cute little bomb.  Why we like this so much is a mystery to this day.  Alive, vibrant, sensuous and organic is the way I would classity this piece.  Something about the choice of colors that sends you right to the Liquor Store for more.

END OF BEACHES #1

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