Another painting on the wall

Stencils and other wall paintings photographs

"It seems graffitis have been part of urban environment since long. Tey are even considered as being an integral part of our patrimony for there is a museum of graffitis, created in 1987, where inscriptions from Middle Age till beginning of the twentieth century are shown.
(...) Inscriptions look as if they were instantaneous, or made of mystery and social emptyness."

Excerpt from Les tags, spectres de la jeunesse, Histoire d’une nouvelle pratique urbaine by Alain Vulbeau

"It is the state of creativity which makes the artist, and not the museum. (...) Poetry lies elsewhere, within facts, within the created event. Having been left aside for long, poetry in facts becomes today the heart of everything, it reaches the daily life, which ithas, in fact, never left."

Excerp from "Créativité, spontanéité et poésie", Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations, Raoul Vaneigem, Éditions Gallimard, 1967.

When everyone is aware of what creativity lies within oneself, of what strength, when everyone knows how to tell it with spontaneity, then the scenery around us will be our first playing field. For those who know how to look at things, it is already started...