BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2024. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays Everyone!
This floating plastic bag, like so many, appears mysteriously in the margins of a neighborhood, buffeted by warm, urine-soaked breezes and ice-cream truck melodies and small clouds of industrial pollution stirred by large trucks rumbling past. When artists transform everyday objects and elevate them, we reconsider them. In the case of plastic bags like these, they have been illegal for stores to use here for a few years, deemed bad for the environment. Perhaps the amorphous air-lifted ghost merits a twisted sense of nostalgia for the humble handle-bagged holder of three tins of cat food, a bright yellow bottle of dishwashing liquid, and a lottery card.
Roller-tagged above it are the Homesick boys, once residents of Williamsburg with their mom; now chased away by the surging powers of gentrification that herald luxury brands like Chanel to the neighborhood. Many who grew up in that Brooklyn neighborhood will never live in again because they can’t afford to, a displacement that makes one long for anything evocative of another era, homesick for a time that has past, often before your eyes.
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