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Pointing out the Lost Potential for Life, Beauty and Art in Modern Urban Environments

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Why I have depression

It is Clear that Many of the Walls in this Collection of Wastescapes have been graffitied and painted, graffitied and painted, Numerous Times. Graffitied by Bored, Angry, Rebellious Teen'Agers. Re painted by Rigid, Self Conscious, un Imaginative Adults. Often the re Painting looks Worse than the Graffiti. This re Occurring Pattern of Angry Rebellion and Rigid Confromity indicates a Culture lacking in Joie de Vivre, for whom Dominion over a Conformist, Monochrome Piece Private Property is More im'Portant than the Emotive and Creative Xpressions of its Youth.

Patriarchy and Authoritarianism are Evident in the Straight Lines and Emotionless Colors that Dominate the Wastescapes.

Vehicles and Pavement proliferate where Life should.

Depression is created in the Mind of the be Holder of Such Lifelessness.

Oppression is what we should call the Public's being dis Allowed to alter these Wastescapes so they bring them Pleasure.

We will not live in Freedom or Joy in our Urban Environments until the Right to Art, Life and Beauty in Spaces Visible to the Public Eye is achieved.

Graffiti and Guerrilla Gardening are Righteous Acts when confronted with the Hideousness of the Urban Canvas.

These Photos were taken Point and Shoot with a Digital Camera in Downtown Victoria, BC, Canada, a Small Tourist City on Coast Salish Territory, Vancouver isLand.


Behold the Squalid Horror.

This, the Glory of God!

Gayscale

Plants reclaim a Vacant Lot

A Dragon Fly on Pavement out Side London Drugs on Yates

A ' Public Space ' Poster has been Wheat pasted over a ' Private Property ' Sign

To be continued...