ARTISTIC TRASH OR TREASURE?

On a recent trip to Asheville in North Carolina, I walked past an old warehouse building.  On the corrugated steel cladding were a series of spray-painted clichéd graffiti images.  The usual run of derivative and ugly “tags” was broken by one very striking image.

The rectangular shape of the head and body of a robot-like figure was drawn in perspective.  The painter of this image had created something really quite remarkable.  Painted on the corrugated metal siding, the head appeared to move as I walked past the image.  Unexpectedly for once, a usually ugly piece of street art trash, became artistic treasure.