Really peed off today. I had everything planned, and arrived in Ipswich to begin getting some video shots and photos for use in my video short for use in my dissitation.
Every week whenever I am in town I find new and not so new and some really dated works of art (along with some default black pen work..not my favorite but interesting all the same)
Anyway, with video camera in hand and bag of vid supplies along with new blank tapes and the last of the Sony "normal-life"[2 1/2 hrs recording time]
I must have walked for miles this morning. I got the 9.19am bus from near where I live and headed into Ipswich with a really good feeling in my gut. Trouble is, wherever I went, the Urban Art had been disintegrated by those above (council treated with default yucky pink or worse colour they can usually find).
So I ended up going back to where I remembered there was some artwork scattered around an old building site, an old church yard and behind a Supermarket in the car park area.
To be honest, I at least got some footage for use in the work I am doing, but all the really great art has been vandalized and has been painted over. I understand that to some (and I DO agree that certain work is not that cool) but to remove the works that I remember being up on specific places is a travesty. When you stop and consider what the council or whoever has done this has put in place of the work it is laughable. I have a few shots that I will try to unload of before and after shots.
Just glad I live in Suffolk as some of the artists are more talented that mere words can describe. Some work I have seen in particular, the stencil work and a small percentage of past ups and stickers have been really nice to bump into whilst walking the streets heading to the shops or wherever I have been going.
Anyway. I guess I will have to leave it a while and try and hunt down some new places where artwork has been "hung" upon the concrete gallery of Urban Life and start from there.
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