Walking along a local trail late Sunday afternoon, I happened upon an elementary kid and his grandma using colored tape to put up these crude tape-graffiti signs on the trail. Enjoy.
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| "Spring!" |
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| Ukraine is on everyone's mind. |
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| With tape, circles become polygons. |
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| "COVID out! Life is hard." And note how the tape is already falling off. |
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| concentrating on the "COVID out!" part |
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| concentrating on the "Life is hard" part |
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| an extra case of colored tape & stuff |
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| a closeup of the art supplies |
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| one of many tape-flowers I saw along the trail, most on the ground, including some with Korean initials (e.g., ㅈ ㅁ, or "j m," standing for the word jangmi, which means "rose," next to a tape-flower image of a rose) |
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| "We want peace." |
There were a lot of these colored-tape images; I took photos of only a small fraction of them. The kid and his grandma had already done a ton of work over maybe a two-kilometer stretch of the path. Tape like that won't last long; I expect the images to be gone in weeks, especially if there's a lot of spring rain. Still, I thought it was a cute gesture, another example of art springing up spontaneously in big cities. The tape could become a pollution problem, but most of these larger, established paths have people who patrol them and take care of the major issues. It all works out in the end.
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