Blog Post #3

Title: Decaying Infrastructure | Location: 54th Street, between 37th Avenue and Northern Boulevard in Woodside

I found this accidental art in my neighborhood. It's made up of concrete and various colors of paint residue from over the years. Starting from the top, there is a corner of white sky. The rest of the image is concrete: a diagonal bar, the first main section with internal metal bars for support, the second section with larger chunks of gravel for strength, then the sidewalk. There's a light purple band which takes up about fifty percent of the wall. There is a crack from the top of the bar to the bottom of the wall, which abruptly ends where it meets the sidewalk. Inside the crack, there are bits of red, green, blue, and yellow paint. There is also dark green moss living right above the purple. The texture is rough because it is composed of large rocks. It is flaky at the colored band due to lack of maintenance. Lines are present in every direction and they break up the concrete into many different sections. If you focus on the deepest cracks, there is a giant plus sign. There is a pattern located near the top, which consists of horizontal lines. Brown is a color abundantly found in nature, and the purple caught me off guard because it is not. Purple is a color of sophistication and I thought it was ironic that it was used to cover up graffiti. I thought this was a perfect example of what happens to things when no one is giving attention to them.