Did you see all the kids going to school today? It was LOUD on my bus as everybody was cramming in, some holding hands of their mom or dad or grandparent. Little backpacks, new shoes, excitedly talking about what classes are going to be like this year and what they did over the summer.
Times like this give us a bit of hope in a period when so much for so many seems uncertain. Two years into an economic kick to the stomach and many of us are still reeling, trying to hang on, and some are falling off. For the first time, many are understanding the dangers of poverty and it’s dehumanizing cyclical nature.
Naturally, some artists are there to help us see us – canaries in the coalmine, they dare to go there and talk about the dangers ahead and the dangers present. Armsrock, Swoon, Chris Stain, Specter, even new artists like Indigo and Joe Iurato – all explore sides of the human experience that are difficult for us to talk about sometimes but all the more necessary.
Taking advantage of really temperate and long summer days recently, Chris Stain and Billy Mode have been working in the beauty that is upstate New York on a few murals – some of which contemplate the realities of a system that can push people into the margins and leave them there. Incorporating some of Chris’s recent imagery of the boy along with his signature atmosphere urban signposts, the two created a graff-style sign across the front spelling the word that is associated with poverty.
Says Stain, “The mural says ‘Danger’ and it’s a tribute to our friend VOKE. One of his early tags was DANGER. He was the most creative person that Bill and I knew, always pushing the boundary of what graffiti was about and what it could become. With this piece we tried to do just that by incorporating graffiti style lettering and stencils. ”
![Brooklyn-Street-Art-WEB-copyright-Chris-Stain-voodooby-voke A 20 year old picture of a piece by Voke, courtesy Chris Stain](http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Brooklyn-Street-Art-WEB-copyright-Chris-Stain-voodooby-voke.jpg)
- “Voo Doo”, A 20 year old picture of a piece by Voke, courtesy Chris Stain
![Brooklyn-Street-Art-WEB-copyright-Chris-Stain-voodooby-voke A 20 year old picture of a piece by Voke, courtesy Chris Stain](http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Brooklyn-Street-Art-WEB-copyright-Chris-Stain-voodooby-voke.jpg)
![Brooklyn-Street-Art-copyright-Chris-Stain-abolish-poverty Brooklyn-Street-Art-copyright-Chris-Stain-abolish-poverty](http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Brooklyn-Street-Art-copyright-Chris-Stain-abolish-poverty.jpg)
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