2264 | The Poetry of Photography

2264

Question of the day:
if it is this pretty, is
it still graffiti?

Dallas, Texas
photographed 4.14.2018

Tags: dallas, graffiti, haiku, learning to see, Leica, melinda green harvey, micropoetry, photography, poetry, postaday, take time to look, texas, thoughtful seeing

5 thoughts on “2264”

Michael Scandling on May 19, 2019 at 9:26 am said:

Who made it? A vandal? An artist? The answer to that lies in intention.

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- Melinda Green Harvey on May 21, 2019 at 10:14 am said:
  
  Or an artist/vandal? Or a vandal/artist?
  
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  - Michael Scandling on May 21, 2019 at 11:00 am said:
    
    Like you said…
paula graham on May 19, 2019 at 3:00 pm said:

I like graffiti lots, most of the time, when pained on suitable walls and not on private people’s houses.

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- Melinda Green Harvey on May 21, 2019 at 10:17 am said:
  
  I like graffiti as well!
  
  A few years ago, on a photography class, a few of us were walking down an alley in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and came upon a beautiful graffiti mural on the back of a building. Then the man who’d painted it walked out, and we had a chat. We asked if we could take his photo; he declined, saying, “I had permission to paint this, but the others…”
  
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