The transitoriness of objects

Graffiti

Graffiti
Graffiti: is it art or the first step towards the degradation of the environment? You could see it as vandalism, but besides, it has been an art form for years. However, we mostly think of the destructive form.
Fences and walls remain a rewarding base for the graffiti artist, even when they are composed of metal. Yet, metal gets rusty. This can be seen in this series of (panoramic) photos. The rust marks filter through the work of art and the artists’ tags slowly disappear by the traces of moisture and rust.
People have found graffiti of the Romans and the Vikings. Also, it has been discovered on monuments in Egypt, which, at that time, were not monuments yet. Furthermore, graffiti has been applied on prison walls for years, and also toilet doors in schools and stations. Will these artists’ graffiti make it to the summer?
Particulier bezit
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art,
the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element,
which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Pierre Charles Baudelaire Poet, Writer 1821-1967
 

Desolated Industrial areas

Verlaten industriële gebieden
These pictures show the transitoriness of objects. How nature (and time) have regained possession of things created by human hands. Places the last workman has departed from years ago. All one hears is the wind, the cracking of pipes, the creaking of open doors and windows and the leaking of many places after a rainshower.
The colours, smells and sounds all blend well into a desolate environment. It’s nature that makes the factory slowly disappear to give way to everything nature has to offer us. Lively green colours of trees, bushes and lots of moss. Various brown shades of rust and moist brick display a building in the autumn of its existence. A unique biotope which will eventually be knocked down by men’s hand, to make room for the birth of something new.
   

The Wall

Muren
Walls are practically very normal.
In fact, art should always be that normal,
and always just art...

Read more: The Wall

   
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