March 7, 2015

We walked to the Plaza del Mercado in Santurce the other day, from Condado. We walked under the highway bridge carrying the highway Expreso Roman Baldorioty de Castro. That highway carries traffic to and from Old San Juan, in an east-west direction.

It is often the case that bridge walls serve as canvases for the local artists. The image below demonstrates the size of some of these works.

Art on bridge wall in Santurce, March 2015.

I like the running motif with the gaily colored shoes. I’m not sure what the head to the right is all about – is he an artist, looking for a space to show his talent?

I was particularly taken by a series of more or less black and white images to the right (downhill) from the purported artist. Our friend Thomas had seen a documentary about the artist, and said he was the same person who had created the iguanoid creature I wrote about in an earlier post (see Street Art I). Unfortunately, Thomas did not remember his/her name. Perhaps some reader can provide me that information.

In any case, here are four images of his (her?) work.

I cleaned up the images in Adobe Photoshop® by fiddling with the contrast, and removing what I took to be streaks caused by running paint. See for example the streak on the left leg on the last image – it extended a bit further down. In fact, here is the unretouched version for comparison.

What do you think?

By the way, the smiling shark is from a wall panel on Calle Canal as we walked up towards the Plaza del Mercado. I wonder if Shark Number 9 was the inspiration for Left Shark, of Super Bowl fame.