Back alley art

Beautiful back alley art right in the heart of Fountain Square. I'm not positive, but I believe that these paintings were done by artists at the Murphy Art Center across the street.

If you look on the far right side of the picture, you can see that someone tried to tag "40" over the character's face. Why would someone deface this piece of art? Oh... wait... Fountain Square (although filled with art, culture, and class) has a plethora of gangs and such runnin' the streets. Fuckin' lames.

I was headed down to Fountain Square on my bike the other day to meet up with some poets for a writing session at the Shelby Street Cafe.

I'll introduce you to them in a later post.

They're dopeness in human form!

Anyway, I took a turn down Virgina Ave and saw a short cut through an alley. This is what I found.

There were 2 or 3 more paintings, but these are the ones I could take before my battery died. I'm goin' back tomorrow to meet up w/ them again, and I'll add more pics of the art work.

Life and love... until next time,

Devon Ginn