Global Graffitti - Day 9, A Photo(s) That You Took

Whenever I go away somewhere I always look for the local street art. I love the spontaneity and unexpectedness of it. I love how in some cities it feels natural and blends in with the great architecture and dilapidated buildings, having every right to be there. I love the fact that great street art gets imitated by artists and marketers alike, and that it owns the spaces it fills and reflects the people that live there. And so here are a collection of street art pictures that I have taken here in London and on my travels. Hope you like them:

Rad Stencils off Tottenham Court Road

Poodle found astray in Shoreditch

Space Invader in Covent Garden

Roller Pig in Barcelona

Green Lady Paste Up in Berlin

Graffittied Section of the Berlin Wall

Donkey - a symbol of Barcelona

Femme Fatale stencil in Berlin

This too is humanity

Somedays, humanity fails me. People seem angry and the papers are filled with stories that stink of pain, alienation and hostility. It seems that so much of what we have to see everyday in the media is just fear mongering. Let's make them scared and horrified and shocked enough, so that eventually they will no longer be able to think.

If you want to see the hope and the truth in humanity, you need to look towards the arts. It can be found in paintings and music and film and architecture and literature.

And so, when the misery and the isolation start to cloud in I look to the arts. The beautiful things I have seen, and will see. And one of them is the roof of the Palau de le Musica Catalana. I saw it when I was in Barcelona, and I was filled with wonder that someone could create something so beautiful. It was created to inspire awe, to celebrate beauty, and to celebrate art. This too is humanity. When I see it I remember that this too is humanity.