Gayle Brennan Spencer – sending random thoughts to and from South Austin
Guessing the purpose of street art applied to many garage doors in Valencia is two-fold: to alert drivers seeking parking spaces in a competitive environment not to block the driveways and to dissuade both graffiti artists and taggers from assuming the metal louvered doors are blank canvases awaiting their touch.
The same type of louvered doors lowered over shop or business entrances often combine advertising in the colorful artistic expressions characterizing numerous streets.
Living up to the standards demanded of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city of Guanajuato keeps street art and graffiti under tight control in its historic center. We did encounter a few artistic contributions tucked away on streets above, though.
Art certainly represents a preferable encounter on Callejon Perros Muertos to any of the narrow street’s namesake dead dogs.
Watching all the families interact with the temporal art during the annual Chalk It Up festival sponsored by Artpace makes one wish Houston Street were closed to automobile traffic every weekend.
Not sure who installed the two striking storefront murals across the street from the Majestic Theatre, but the reflections from the streetscape intermingle interestingly with them.
Postcards from Barton Springs 