the wall of fa me amoreiras a travelogue..........................
milita dore and myself travelled to lisbon on jan 20 by train....on one of our cultural days out.......our first destination was amoreiras and the "wall"....we walked up the hill from rato...as we neared the top we were asking each other where the wall might be........right in front of us....our pace quickened...cameras ready....here is a travelogue of the wall......it is impressive....just its physical size.....the main wall faces a shopping centre...it is obviously the prime wall....it is freshly painted....as you meander alongs its length images have partly and completely painted over......it reminds me of an archeological dig....remnants of images are still visible....at certain points the artists did not quite reach the top of the wall....pity they didnt have ladders........there are some clever witty touches ...for example painted barbed wire that mimics the real thing on top of the wall......there are also some small bushes painted which mirror real bushes on top of the wall......as we progressed around the corner were the bus stops are ...the wall takes on a very dilapidated look.......with the odd new painting acting as a comma or a full stop....i am inetrested to know if the artists co- ordinate working on the wall....either by mutual agreement or is there an organising group that make the decisions.......i have only taken of photographs of parts of the wall.....maybe reflecting not only what interests me peronally.....but what i think are good peices of work....eccentric work...amusing work....you can make your own mind up what you think of street art......i think is has a relevance to the society and world that we live in today................
milita dore and myself travelled to lisbon on jan 20 by train....on one of our cultural days out.......our first destination was amoreiras and the "wall"....we walked up the hill from rato...as we neared the top we were asking each other where the wall might be........right in front of us....our pace quickened...cameras ready....here is a travelogue of the wall......it is impressive....just its physical size.....the main wall faces a shopping centre...it is obviously the prime wall....it is freshly painted....as you meander alongs its length images have partly and completely painted over......it reminds me of an archeological dig....remnants of images are still visible....at certain points the artists did not quite reach the top of the wall....pity they didnt have ladders........there are some clever witty touches ...for example painted barbed wire that mimics the real thing on top of the wall......there are also some small bushes painted which mirror real bushes on top of the wall......as we progressed around the corner were the bus stops are ...the wall takes on a very dilapidated look.......with the odd new painting acting as a comma or a full stop....i am inetrested to know if the artists co- ordinate working on the wall....either by mutual agreement or is there an organising group that make the decisions.......i have only taken of photographs of parts of the wall.....maybe reflecting not only what interests me peronally.....but what i think are good peices of work....eccentric work...amusing work....you can make your own mind up what you think of street art......i think is has a relevance to the society and world that we live in today................
what is on the other side of this wall
