The French artist duo Ella et Pitr painted this wonderful streetart mural in the city of Valparaiso on Cerro Alegre. When you are on the top of the escallera on the cerro (=hill) you keep on walking up the little mountain. After seeing a lot of other nice streetart and painted houses you will see the alley divides into two. And on house on the edge in the middle there is this nice old lady waiting. She looks a bit disturbed and borred, stil gracefully, but blasé and with the fingers drumming like waiting for something. I love this one! She appears so nicely and calm with the pink surrounding and her red fashioned finger nails. In some way she is saying "Look around you, that´s our painted neighborhood.... here even the grandmas can do great graffiti and paintings on their houses! I am waiting to see your house painted!!!". :-) The "nearly-exact" location of the lady should be here. The whole city is one fantastic streetart mural. Awesome!
More Photos from this series:
Streetart Valparaiso #1 - "The Diver" on Cerro Polanco
Streetart Valparaiso #2 - "Skinless Face" on Cerro Polanco
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That's beautiful. Bringing life to communities .. upvoted and thanks for sharing @vagabundler
Thanx! I love graffiti and streetart and I think our surroundings don´t have to look always the way how they were built in the first. In my country Germany it´s illegal just to spray on some walls. But as well I am not allowed to choose how the street of the other side of my window looks like, nobody asked me for this Coca Cola advertisment or the one from the Deutsche Bank, I don´t like these either and would prefer this old lady :-). I love the mentality there in Chile, they just all started to paint their houses by themselves or they let numerous artists paint them. In the end you have a amazing colorful city which has as well an impact on the psyche, the inner comfort and the town society. Very different to always looking on grey or just plain walls... :-). A first step would be to make much more free spaces to paint and do streetart over here in Europe.
Esto me parece una muy buena iniciativa para la ciudad, y esos espacios intersticiales que se esconden de las miradas, pero siempre están allí/This seems to me a very good initiative for the city, and those interstitial spaces that hide from the eyes, but they are always there.
Thanks for appreciation! I think every city should have much more paintings on the buildings and included in the architecture.