While we as a society perceive art as something that we should view inside museums and galleries, there exists an ever-pervasive expression of art and emotion all around us on the streets and buildings of our urban centers. Sometimes we overlook this art as just background, or we may even view it as destructive. But when we take time to really look at these pieces, we realize that art is in everything, from the spray-painted social "fuck you's" to old pre-computer-generated commercial signs and billboards. Art is found in tiny window-sills and covers whole walls of urban thoroughfares. Sometimes the art isn't permanent, but rather a momentary spontaneous expression of a child in play.
This evening, with just under two hours of sunlight, I drove around my own neighborhood in search of art that surrounds my environment (staying within 2 miles of home). Up one street, down an ally, in a parking lot, behind a building....I did not have to search but rather scramble to capture all that I found before sunset.
Aside from a few older pics sprinkled in, this gallery is comprised of images captured during this one brief venture. If I knew who these folk (or commercial) artists were, I would give them credit. That will be a research assignment for another day.
