A few weeks ago I posted about a piece of street art that had popped up in Stucley Place (AKA “Shit Alley”) in Camden. Well, that piece has already been replaced with this very interesting work.
The artist responsible is a young man from Hong Kong who goes by the name of Roes. I actually caught him for a short chat while he was still working on the mural. This was the first piece created on his most current visit to the UK and I have been told thhat there are plenty more of his works to be found dotted across the city. He looked rather busy at the time, so I didn’t keep him long. We talked about the terrible British weather and some of the other artworks that have recently appeared around the neighbourhood. He seemed like a very cool and humble guy and his passion for his craft was clear. You can find more of Roes’s work here.
The rural idyll is long gone in the places where it did exist, as the economy that supported it has vaporized. But I can tell you from my six years in rural Appalachia that many places never had an idyll. They may think they did, but that’s the bias of years, prejudice and a resistance to change.
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Obviously, that comment was for the previous post.
But it reminds me of something a woman, lifelong resident of my town, said to me at a kids baseball game. “Everything has changed here,” she complained. “Nothing is like it used to be.” I looked at her and said, “So what? What is the same?”
She stopped talking to me.
If you want to take much from this paragraph then you have to apply such techniques to your won blog.