The BLUE PHAROH!

This amazing sighting was put up in the same brick hole-in-the-wall that has sprouted some of the finest mural work in all the Lower Mainland; albeit to rival Big, Big City Tags in any major Metropolitan area.  These dudes know what they are spraying.  These dudes wait til after before they break out the Bud.  These dudes are far beyond the Emily Kar Kar School of Art Art.  This is some of the finest Work I have seen in LotusLand since I started shooting graffiti.

Mr Rambo II will be our sponor and guide today. Negotiating the Blue Venus Sandhills is no minor excursion.  The Blue Pharoh has been known to suck the life out of the lifeless, and get indigestion in the process.

The scope of this particular work both amazes and intrigues me.  One looks at Graffiti through the telescope of personal bias and individual sentiment. Any way you look at it, a project this Big is Art, pure and simple. Not "art" that some Joe-Tag with a PhD sells to the federal government for x-million dollars, which turns out be a ping-pong table turned on its side - no, mah man.  Dis dah reel t'ing.

This art piece would require great planning, great execution, and great expense. The brick ledge that seperates the top and bottom mural is scarcely two feet wide - a predicament for any Painter, especially one as daunting and dazzling as this.  The detail of the work, the craftsmanship gone into execution, the nice balance, symmetry and color gradients are a total delight to the senses.

The Blue Pharoh is composed of two parallel murals, one a-top t'other, each about 8 feet high and 80 feet long.  The top mural begins a story of the Pyramids and the Dual Guardian Sphynx - furtner adorned with Lightning escaping the eyes.  One would have to journey Far on Psychedelics to see these Wondrous Views.

Pyramids lead into the Sphynx, whose Lightning leads further into the Jenson's Major Bomb, forming the Center-Piece of the Piece.  The Jensons are heretoforth unknown, but have now made their debut, bolder than Love, as Jimi Hendrix would say, bolder than Blue Voodoo.

After the Lightning Juice moves through the Blue Pharoh, on to another Major Tag on the right.  Onward to the Second Guardian Sphynx, more pyramids, minarets, mosques and mountains.  One might ask, "would they even allow such a thing in a Moslem Country?  Is there Graffiti on the Paws of the Sphynx?  Is there a cosmic and/or spiritual connection between astral travel on banned substances and certain unspeakable formations in the Valley Of The Kings?

We will soon solve these riddles, oh Vacant One.

Our top mural passes through the Twin Sphynx number two and on to a second array of Pyramids, in which is nestled another Great Tag of the Bleu Kings, unreadable to the eyes of the uninitiated, like me.

I interject at this point to introduce two fine "pop-ap" windows, illustrating the Amazing Blue Lagoon of Graf High Wizardry.  The TOP MURAL RESIDE HERE, and the BOTTOM MURAL RESIDES HERE.

Here are some highlights from the Blue Pharoh:

Kirin Japan may be an import, or it may be a beer.  It may be a way to come down off a roller-coaster of BC BUD, known by George Bush as "Canada's Largest and most Menacing Export".  Kirin may also be one of the taggers who put up this Sapphire Masterpiece.

Next, we have Pharos Tag - some idyllic blue chemisty, alive with Lightning and Love.  Any way you cut it, it's decent. It's better than Bleu Cheeze, easier than Limburger, faster than McDonald's and more fun than Wendy.

Kirin - Japan signs this piece as brethren to the Jensen's	Wildstyle throwup in the bottom mural.	Mythological Bloodhound Beast, could be the "welcoming committee" at PureGraffiti.org!

EPILOGUE: JAN 2006: The Blue Pharoh Still Lives!