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Hastings Street, Vancouver Eastside
Face-On-Pole Graffiti

As we all know, Hastings Street is a thumb-tack in a Chinese Fortune Cookie.  There ain't no "right and wrong" here, there's only the chaos of seemingly-unfortunate man meeting his basic needs and addictions in back alleyways.

It's a place where artists are born and poets die. You may, by chance see the elusive "Repent Sinner" Lady, sitting patiently on a corner, doling out her measure of biblical rehab for the myriad lost and wandering.

In the colorful alleys and streets of Hastings, the grafitti gamers display their warez convincingly, while underneath their very handiwork, lives melt away in a swirl of crystal meth and starvation.  So it goes...

 

Our journey begins with a back-alley mural depicting a jungle scene.  The lions and tigers crouching in this jungle are not near as dangerous as their real-life counterparts.

Graffiti mural - downtown back alleyway

Graffiti Mural - detail
Graffiti Mural - detail2

 

Downtown Eastside Grafitti Characters

Studies of Humanity. The caricatures in Graffiti Land are always as interesting as their human creators. Expressions, compressions, digressions, ascensions.  We all search for joy in the inconvenience of habit.  Alloys here are bronze and gold.  Allies here are time and temperament, both in short supply and high demand in the Alleyways of Hastings East.

 

The Elephant Deity, Ganesh. The Lord of Success; the Destroyer of Evil and Obstacles.  Evil and Obstacles are adequately represented in the Hastings area. It's not just an outward projection of your Inner Self, either, it's for Real!

Ganesh and his Drum are so beautifully done that he rated a SEZ1 PANORAMIC VIEW so that you can imbibe the juicy details of this Incarnation of Shiva.

Ganesh Graffiti - Hindu Bombsquading at its best...

 

Continuity, Time and Persuasion...

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