Sunday, October 4, 2009

colorful considerations


This is a rough style I hadn't seen before that screams out with color, provocative expressions and exclamation points. These are long gone, but were the most colorful I have found on the Northbank Park stairway.

It is ironic that the painter is ostensibly exercising the very free speech that is dismissed but the invitation to free thought gives pause. We assume we have both and most often fight for freedom of speech, but most people do not stray too far from the narrow fold of approved cerebral activity.



For those who have and continue to venture beyond, to explore and experience, to think and imagine, to revise and remake, the celebrated "real world" is little more than a....







And more colorful play...cheerful grapes?