“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this?”
- Pablo Picasso
There are many places where I don't want to see graffiti. While most agree defacing buildings and fences with scribbles is unacceptable, such public displays are welcome in some corners and can appear more like art exhibits than vandalism. All the way down the
1001 Steps in Ocean Park, along a dusty pathway and through a tiny tunnel for walkers under a railway there's a pebbly beach where people spray paint for fun.
I've yet to catch a graffiti artist in the act but their colourful boxy designs on the grim gray cement transforms the spot into a happy place ... made especially happy recently because I didn't fall off the log when my daughter took pictures. (The bay was likely a key area for bringing supplies into the community by sea over a century ago.)
Later in Crescent Beach bright sunflowers stood straight as soldiers at attention.
Sea-hued creatures were on display tacked to a wooden gate.
Colour brushed against a plainly painted fence showing Mother Nature was artsy too.
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