Tag: Street Art

The Two Heras

On By ResaIn Graffiti Alley, Tributes126 Comments

At first it seemed like another pretty face in the midst of graffiti mayhem.

Then there’s this eyepatch with a crab.

Turns out Cancer, the crab, was sent by goddess Hera to distract Hercules while he battled Hydra.

Suddenly the Hera pendant makes total sense. Goddess Hera is alive and well in Graffiti Alley.

Hera is also the goddess, who lives with my pal, Marina – Art Towards a Happy Day

Here, Hera is alive and well and living as a beautiful dog.

Taking the drawing of Hera that Marina did, I combined it with the image below,

…. to create the header for this post: The Two Heras

Hera drawing © Marina Kanavaki

Pics taken by Resa – May 29, 2024

Toronto, Canada

The Hera alley artist: Not sure at this time

For Hera and Marina(& Socrates) on their Anniversary

June 18th is Hera’s Gotcha Day. I’m not sure how many years ago it was, but I do know Hera has had about a million years of love since.

Mahsa Amini

On By ResaIn Elicser, Graffiti Alley100 Comments

Lest we forget, Mahsa -22 years old –

…..was arrested in Iran for not wearing her hijab according to law.

She died in rehabilitation/detention, setting off protests unlike the country had seen before.

This post is dedicated to Aladin – Lamp Magician, who left Iran many years ago.

From time to time, he posts about Mahsa, and the plight of Iranian women.

I never know what I’ll find in an alley.

Woman. Life. Freedom

Pics taken by Resa – May 29, 2024

Toronto, Canada

The Arists:

Going Squirrelly

On By ResaIn Garage Doors134 Comments

I’m getting a weird plug-in message when I use the classic editor.

Research said it’s related to my theme, or the classic editor.

So, I’m trying the block editor and it’s not happening.

Anyway, fell in love with the squirrel when I saw it, but the sun was bright and made annoying shadows on the art.

Figured while I’m in the blockhead, enjoying a learning curve, I might as well try a feature! I chose image compare.

The first one is full sun and shadows. The second one is 3 hours later. There was 1 thick cloud over the sun. I had about 5 minutes to shoot the squirrel.

Before the merciful cloud, I went back after about 2 hours and got this shadow.

All in all, squirrelly.

Pics taken by Resa – April 1, 2024

The artist:

The stupid message: