It was raining for a lot of my time in São Paulo. One day, noticing the grafitti, I took to walking under a multi-kilometer overpass, through and around the homeless people, taking pictures of images. These pics are some examples of what I found.
Image two crack me up to no end. The boy's eyes, one eye has pure love in it, the other eye is all f%#$@d up -- that's what being male is all about (not to mention female, but we leave her with the illusion of sweet purity).
Snap 3 is titled "nina" (girl) as per her bracelet. Pic 4 is of a funky Death. Pic 5 is a gritty urban scene, dark, brooding, so fitting of Latin America. Love it.
Pics 6 and 7 are of São Paulo's skyline, a condensed representation of its more stylish architecture.
The last, pic 8, is of a multi-patterned, button-eyed teddy.
The best art in Latin America is not found in museums on canvas. It is found on the street on concrete. Time and again I have been viciously disappointed by pay-for art museums, yet delighted by a free grafitti image.
