PHOTOGRAPHY
I’m off to a gig in Mornington Crescent this evening. Last year I came across this graffiti on the way to Mornington Crescent just off Camden High Street; to me it sums up a type of jokey witticism that is manifested in the Yiddish “Chochmah”, derived from the Hebrew for wisdom. This is chochmah NW1 … Read more
Saw this graffiti in Soho a few months ago … I’ve cropped it square so it could make an ‘alternative’ mother’s day cd album cover, rather than the usual pink florals and cuddly toy imagery! It’s a day late … well, better late than never.
I love this stencil graffiti I saw years ago in Venice. I assume the figure on the left is male and adult, running (and leading?) the figure on the right, who I assume to be female … mainly because of a triangle at the side of her head which suggests long hair and a trapezoid … Read more
Tel Aviv is full of vibrant graffiti including striking stencil graffiti and hebrew text. However amongst all of this I started noticing some naive childlike scratchings – a bit like a non-smiley emoticon with or without an armless body – in many locations over the the city. Here are some of them. I also came … Read more
Came across this cry for help on a tree in Jerusalem the other day. The dash in G-d is common practice in orthodox Judaism. The custom of substituting the word “God” with G-d in English is based on the traditional practice in Jewish law of giving God’s Hebrew name a high degree of respect and reverence. … Read more
My cousin Susi has since solved the mystery for me. The graffiti is basically a Hebrew pun; the question mark symbol asks why? The word for why in Hebrew is lama. This is juxtaposed with a representation of a llama.
I’m off to Tel-Aviv tomorrow for a short holiday; haven’t been since 2008. Here’s one I took back then
Came across this today .. i like the mystery .. who is Clive? I’ve been taking lots of “gluey” abstract images over the years; here are a few examples. Another couple with text: And a street abstract:
