Street Greening

I learned today of a cool "reverse" graffiti artist, Paul "Moose" Curtis, who cleans away dirt from city walls to depict beautiful natural images. Here is a shot of a project he did on a busy highway area in San Francisco. 

Maybe I'm connecting with this work because of how much time we're spending around dirty areas of the subway system, and the streets in general. It's frustrating that the subway stations in poorer areas (including ours) are in much worse repair than the ones around the financial districts and wealth in Manhattan. I'll take some subway photos someday, but in the meantime, here are some shots of what my iPhone can capture while walking down the sidewalk. 

In this case, we were on our way to an opening in Chelsea on Thursday -- the best work we've seen in Chelsea so far! Continuing the theme of green, I took the photo below of my wine cup in front of one of the photos on display to point out a problem with all these gallery openings we keep attending... the ubiquitous plastic cup. I keep using the first one I get for re-fills, but of course my goal is not to take (and throw out) disposable anything. I need to get a sturdy plastic cup to take with me each time we go out. Maybe a collapsable camping cup? I'd be the envy of the fashionistas, for sure...