BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
Introverts of the World Unite!
Brother, its hard out here. Not just the economy and the evaporating social net and the haters.
But for the introverted types, and there are many in society, just having a public face and interacting with lots of people on the street and at your job or in the barber shop is work. You’d really rather be away from all of this socializing.
Skount. “Levitation”. Amsterdam. April 2016. (photo © courtesy of the artist)
Today in Amsterdam the artist Skount shows us his concept of that sort of inner life, which he paints hidden under a bridge by himself away from the world. Many graffiti and Street Artists like these quiet places that the infrastructure of our roads and streets and train lines can afford.
“Inspired by the concept of levitation, this mural represents a state of mind, where our hidden feelings and desires from our inner universe provide an upward force that counteracts the weight of the social role established,” he says, depicting a face as a mask that is discarded and lying in a forest of some kind. Perhaps the wearer tired of it, or no longer needed it here alone in the woods with nature, away from social constructions.
Skount. “Levitation”. Amsterdam. April 2016. (photo © courtesy of the artist)
Skount tells us that he was thinking of that middle psychological/social/spiritual realm where many people actually live in their day-to-day interactions with the world, a place where we are “keeping our thoughts in a state between what we are (identity) and the patterns of behavior that society imposes on an individual.”
Ah well, there is always another tunnel or abandoned factory to paint…
Skount. “Levitation”. Amsterdam. April 2016. (photo © courtesy of the artist)
Skount. “Levitation”. Amsterdam. April 2016. (photo © courtesy of the artist)
Skount. “Levitation”. Amsterdam. April 2016. (photo © courtesy of the artist)
238
138
45
Other Articles You May Like from BSA:
There are a few walls you remember over the years, and this one in Borås, Sweden stays fresh in our minds from our trip there in 2015 for the NoLimit Festival (@nolimitboras), originated by the fanta...
We have an unusually high number of "Unidentified Artist" pics this week along with some new names - which to us means the streets are alive and changing again, responding to new voices. Of cour...
Migration is as human as it is aviary, and Italian graffiti writer/mural painting duo the WASP collective tells us with this new painting of a stork. Eddyone a.k.a. Edoardo Kucich and Ride a.k.a. Gabr...
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. The first day of February brought New York a blizzard - a foot and a half of snow, complete with winds and drifts and buried cars. It drives everyone outside to...
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening : 1. Richmond Mural Program 2014 2. Black ANZAC: Time Lapse of WW1 Soldier Wall 3. Adnate, Aske...
