Street Art
The last refuge against all prohibitions The speakeasy’s of the future Drinking ourselves into oblivion Waking on a tequila sunrise While big guns boom in your head Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
The walks are all is left in London A world divided in essentials and expendables We push or pull our meek lives aimlessly Listening to the glistening on the telly Watching the web influencers flaunt their botox bodies As bubbles of champagne pop in the background Don’t worry, be happy… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates […]
Marketing is the hungry predator Our locked lives cannot wait To go spend our last credit For the red-soled killer shoes Something to die for I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
The window dressing is similar to street art It is free imaginative creative and ephemeral The purpose and constraints are different But they share the mural and temporary nature The single shot at the gawker’s eye Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
The walls are silent places We hang paintings they don’t see They are said to have ears But they seldom cry Unless the hapless get lined For the crime of being free And shot like dogs by the great liberators Hundred years of solitude on the Golgotha We learn nothing, we just wallow in our […]
With a slight slant of the eye the ordinary becomes extraordinary Images painted on a wall between a red car and a colorful bus The bland walls and the stripes on the floor Lend an ephemeral frame to the passing moment Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery
The streets have ears and police cameras roam free Art is the outlaw, the vandal from beyond Hadrian’s wall We marvel at the anonymous and ephemeral works They carry the message of a culture, unlike the sterile ads A penny for our thoughts, a fistful of dollars for our soul Art by talented mural artist […]
Murals on a yellow warehouse As the morning sun chases the Pacific fogs Bright colors fill the streets of Lima A talented artist offered portraits to the wall And to the passerby with open eyes Photo Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery