Not the prettiest piece of art ever painted.
Found in an underpass, it remains haunting.
Hey mom! Can I go out and play?
Pics taken by Resa – February 5, 2024
Toronto, Canada
The artist is unknown at this time.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Not the prettiest piece of art ever painted.
Found in an underpass, it remains haunting.
Hey mom! Can I go out and play?
Pics taken by Resa – February 5, 2024
Toronto, Canada
The artist is unknown at this time.
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These are hidden, intelligent arts that must be discovered by awakened eyes. Thank you for your awareness, dear Resa. As you said, these illustrations tell us a lot for, according to German: “Nachdenklichkeit” (paying a deep pensiveness).🤙💖🙏🌟🖖
Thank you to you too, Aladin!
I like the phrase you have taught me. “Nachdenklichkeit”.
Now, I just need to learn how to say it and remember it, properly. I will.
The easy way is to write it in Google Translate and click the speaker icon!😉💖🤗
I did that. It’s a bit of a challenge, and I’ll have to try more! 🤗🤗🤗
Oh, my dear, you have no idea how hard I have struggled to learn this complex language all these years!😜😂💖
Yes, but you try! 🤙💖💖
Oh yes, I still do!😉😂😘
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OH! By the way, I am dedicating my next post to you. I found the street art today, and thought of you. 💙
I saw it and am wholeheartedly grateful and proud of your kindness, my lovely lady. Your endearing post moved me to tears.🙏💖💘🤗🙏😘😘
I could only think of you when I found Mahsa’s painting.
I am honoured that you like my dedication to you! 🙏🤗💖
I take this treasure with all my heart and immense honour. 🙏💖🙏🌹☘🥰
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VERY intriguing art, Resa! Glad you saw the images so we could see them, too.
Thanks Dave! Yes, it is an intriguing, thought provoking piece despite its simplicity. I never know what I’ll find out there. Not everything speaks this loudly.
That’s me on a good day!
LOL! TOF!
Oh man… this one hit me in the solar plexus, Sorceress. The trio of images made me so sad. What a message! Thank you for sharing. xoxoxo
Yeah, I agree I held back posting. Thunder, you know I love the faces and pretty paintings, but this truth had to get out on a post.
xoxoxo
It had to be shared, my friend. Absolutely. xoxoxo
Thank you Thunder!
xoxoxo
Absolutely Sorceress.
xoxoxo
Interesting, good detail, creative by using the sides for the complete message, and I love the Banana phone.
Banana phone…. Now I get it! I mean the phone part anyway, on top of the rest. Thank you, Frank!
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Thank you, Graham!
Ah, had to wait for that last one for the “punch line”. Or is it “punch in the gut”? Very interesting. Of course it is appropriate that the parent is fixated on a Banana branded phone… nice find.
Trent,
Yes, “punch to the gut” is appropriate. You know I love the pretty faces and more colourful art out there, but this one is special. Had to be posted.
Lol! You know, the banana phone didn’t register with me. I kept asking myself, what is that?
I think was assuming it would be a known brand logo.
Silly me!
Kind of funny, I think the Banana phone was the first thing I noticed… Maybe because a kid in the Bloom’s County comic strips used a Banana Junior 6000 computer back in the mid-1980s. (Yes, I had to Google it to get the exact computer name)
Wow! Now that’s a memory, Trent.
I don’t know…. I thought it was some kind of fairy.
Comic strips of the ’80s are my thing 😉 Also the phone looked like an Apple, but… lol
Cool…. 80’s comics.
An Apple.. yeah it does.
80’s…making sure I had a boyfriend in a band was my thing. Lol!
Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side, Blooms County… I formed a couple of bands in the 80s, but never played out except to friends. I was mostly just trying to find a girlfriend at all (one who was more than just a friend) lol, that was me back then, ultra-nerd.
Aww, I wanted to be a nerd!
I had the grades.
Alas, female discrimination at school, and a bad home life caused me to give up and become a teenage runaway.
Nonetheless, I’m more than happy with the results.
I’m sorry all of those forces kept you from being a nerd. But then, you have grown into an art nerd, which is a very good thing 🙂
Yeah! 🙂
Poor little one wants to go out and play while mom plays. A bit of a wasteland to play in. Wonderful find, Resa.
Thanks Tim! It’s not the prettiest piece I ever found, but it does say something important. xx
Great photos, Resa. You are right about haunting. 🐂
Sigh! 🎨⚔️ 🐂
What a find. In terms of what it is conveying??? It is superb.
Agree dear Shey!
I never know what I’ll find out there. Hopefully hitting the alleys tomorrow. (and tattoo parlours.. might get a small one for my cat) xxxx
Well you have an abso eye for the most amazing pieces. I want pics of the tattoo xxx
Lol.. Okay! When I get it, you get pics! xxx
And I appreciate that too. Some times people just photograph anything but you look and find.
xoxxxxxxxx
An ape glued to his iPhone. Speaks volumes.
Agree Liz!
Don’t laugh, but I did not realize that was a banana on the phone. Others pointed it out to me. Duh!
Truth be told, I thought it was a crescent moon.
I can see that! With a star over it.
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This is fantastic, definitely sending a message. Love it!
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Yes, dear Meece, it is a message. It’s a sad reality for the animals, and a poor reflection on humans.
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a sad reflection on the human race.
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Excellent art, such a sad message.
Yup! I love the pretty faces, and colourful art I find, but I had to post this. Thanks, Janet!
Resa, this is so powerful. It’s truly wonderful. Definitely gets the point across.❤️
Yes it does. ❦❦❦
Hitting a tattoo parlour on my walk tomorrow, and one on Thursday! ❦❦❦
Oh, great. Can’t wait to hear what you decide.
Me too!
Oh, dahling, first mom with the phone, then the poor baby’s eyes and then a barren playground. A grim message wonderfully expressed.
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We need art.Sometimes it speaks louder than we do.
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Oh, yes we do!!!!! …and yes, it does! 😉
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A thought-provoking find, Resa. The panels tell a sad story. Of course we tend to make judgements and jump to conclusions. The mom could be playing games, or she could be calling for help. Thank you for sharing!
Yes, humans interpret everything individually.
However this is interpreted, it holds a message of some kind.
Love sharing the street art.
Hope to find some tomorrow!
You always find great things. Did you see the little dinosaur in mine? Just randomly on a building wall. 😂
YES! Omg! I saw it and thought, a dinosaur… like it was normal to see a dinosaur.
I had to go back and look to realize what I thought. 😂
Just a regular everyday dino.
I know! So random! 😂 Maybe it stands for something.
Maybe… a comment on randomness… or an extinction warning…or someone just likes dinosaurs.
I do get to meet artists. Sometimes when asked what they meant, they reply with a question – What do you think it means?
Sometimes – I think it’s obvious!
Other times – I just looks nice. I like the way it looks.
Almost don’t want to ask! 🤔
Yes, it’s hard to know intention. I get that with poetry, too.
Yes…poetry is mostly subjective to me.
I do know what a poet is saying, at times, but mostly it makes me feel & think something I’ve personalized.
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Resa – a brilliant mural. So glad that you were able to capture the narrative embedded in the scene. To me, the mural is a vivid depiction of an apocalyptic scene, overflowing with emotional intensity that is palpable. The mural artist has skillfully captured a sense of chaos and despair through the use of the dark violet/purple colour and haunting imagery.
You always find a treasure!!!
Thank you Rebecca!
Yes, the dark “violet/purple colour” does capture the chaos and despair.
When I found it, I saw the 3 sides as meaning something. The “apocalyptic scene” did not register, until I looked at the images in my photo files.
It is always incredible to me how I see what I see in real life when I look at the art. Then when I look at the pics, other/more information arises.
I try to impart the art as I believe I saw it upon discovering it, only to find those who view it back to me, find a lot more.
All in all a rewarding experience.
Hugs!
I smiled at the Banana phone instead of the Apple 🙂 lol… Some great art amongst some not so great graffiti 😀 xx ❤
Yes, the banana! I missed that. I’m not sure, I maybe thought like.. and abstract fairy.
Overthinking!
Yes, treasure amongst the trash. It’s a wonder to find it!
Thank you, Sue! ❦❦❦
Glad you did xx ❤
xoxo
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So clever and fun Resa!
Yes, a masterpiece in its right. ❦
Sadly clever and poignant.
I must agree! A valid piece, all in all! Thank you, Brad!
Hi Resa, I really like this. I is symbolic of the dumbing down of our youth due to smart phones and technology. Of course, used correctly and as a learning tool, these things are a great boon.
Good points Robbie, and I agree!
Sad but true
I have never seen such a passionate blogger like you.
Bad art is a thing I like to admire. Like so-bad-it’s-good movies, ya snow? Bad art makes me feel happy embracing my incompetence on certain things (such as art, for I cannot paint). 🎨
I sort of know what you mean.
Is there any bad art, though? Subjectively speaking.
Anyway, you can write like the dickens! x
I can draw, and send you, some terrible art that’ll make you curse the day you contemplated that. If you’re game? I’ll call the piece – Marmite of My Stickman Mushy Peas. It’ll be a stain on humanity’s otherwise perfect record.
You mean a perfect otherwise on humanity’s stain? xx
No, I mean an otherwise humanity on perfect stain.
So… wherein exactly does this perfection lie?
Stain remover?
Probably. I use this brand called Ecover, check ’em out!
Apes are a lot like humans, it seems. Can’t be extricated from their devices for five minutes!
…. Or are humans just a bunch of apes? 🤔
Honestly, sometimes I think we are the most stupid life form on the planet.
BUT… I found more street art today, so I am one happy funky monkey!
Well that’s a given 😉
Oh . . . I know it.
You go mama!
Yahoo!
MUAH!
MUAH!
Nice , very much relaxing
Maybe not so pretty, but quite a commentary. Thanks for posting this, Resa. I hope you’ve been having a great week. Hugs.
Agree! Hope you”re having a fab week, too!
I’m learning Spanish is so much better easier to learn for me! I don’t know how to pronounce that lol not going to try! I learn to do my hobbies which is blogging and comfortable in the skin I’m in and confidence building of not caring what others think!with that said most bloggers I take the time to read and comment or reposts are the ones my energy feels good about and inspiration to keep going and not give up to do what you love..Cute posts intrigues on cool art..have an amazing day…
Yes, a haunting one, Resa. Deforestation and loss of habitat is one sad outcome of human carelessness. One day, human’s will only see apes on flash cards and our children will wonder what happened. Thanks for sharing this underpass find.
Yeah, humans are a humdinger.
I feel sorry for animals. Our choices marginalize them.
We do the same to other humans… and unfortunately, in the end, to ourselves.
Exactly! … and we’re the intelligent species?
So intelligent we can delude ourselves.
True! Quite the ability, all in all.
These are eerie! But fantastic!
Agree, thank you!
Yes!!!
Yes!
wow ! that is weird and strangely haunting —
Yeah.. I’ve read many articles about deforestation, but this art is speaking louder.
Thanks for sharing this discovered art/artist!
Welcome!
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I agree with haunting, Resa, but fascinating and telling as well. I’m glad you found these so we could experience them too! The tiny detail of the banana phone was clever also. I think of the natural habitats of animals being destroyed and also of children growing up with cell phones and less with books. I’m generalizing, but this is from observations when I’m out and about. I’m thankful my daughter and son grew up with books and didn’t get into technology until late in high school. Anyway, thanks for this wonderful mural! Hugs xo
You are welcome, Lauren!
This bit of art is saying a lot.
The cell phone generation is growing up into a species of hunchbacks.
That is of course beyond all of the other pitfalls they are encountering.
Yes, good thing your kids read books.
I still haven’t ruined the flower art. I’ve put a fantasy creature in the flowers. It’s NOT a fairy.
It might be a poet who was abandoned at birth and raised by a flower garden….a Floet?
Working on it!
❦🌹❦🌹xo
There was a Belgian comic strip ages and ages ago called Spirou. One of my favourite adventures was “Le gorille a bonne mine.” (Hard to translate, about gorillas) At one point one of the gorillas gets mad at the heroes, grabs the camera and shoots the hero fleeing the gorilla. Best picture of the entire safari. 😉
Perfect!
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so good
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nice
amazing art work! deep meanings…
Agree, thank you!