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SALT LAKE CITY — What may look like a crack in the wall to one person appears to be Spider-Man's web to another. Creativity, it seems, can find an outlet in the most unexpected mediums.
A photo gallery posted on Memolition.com highlights the best of street art from around the world. The artwork goes beyond the usual crude squiggles seen scrawled on the side of box cars. Some images are so realistic-looking it seems you could hop into the drawings, Mary Poppins style. A sprawling streetscape depicts a giant chasm in the middle of the street, one in which absent-minded passers-by might find themselves jumping at before treading, trepidatiously, across the image.
Little is known about the origins of the images. A representative from Memolition said the images were found all over the web — some are new, and some are quite old.
More than just taggers, the artists who spent time to share these urban messages had real skill. Some of the drawings send not-so-subtle political messages — a drawing of a small boy sewing british flags is haunting while a set of monkeys dining on money works as commentary on a spend-thrift society.
Other photos are just simply enjoyable. A crack in the side of a wall becomes a Lego blocks fortress. A cement barricade is shrouded in an amazing R2D2 knit cozy.
These city streets, some looking sad and run-down, seem an unlikely place to find fine art. That's just what these photos express, though, through a sort of collective, unspoken voice.
