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- Larger than life
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- Midnight Action
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- Slipping through
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- From Above
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- Progress on a cold snowy night
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- Shadow
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- Movement
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- Results
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- Don’t be a hater
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- Way Back
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- Other Artists
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- Not as easy as it seems
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- Does it just keep going?
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- What’s left behind
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- Not just for walls
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- A space for the homeless
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- Addiction
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- Old and new, side by side
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- Come and go
In the abandoned Brooklyn parking lots and railway paths is where you’ll find their mark. The canvases which are found in places that could be parks or even public, evolving galleries are filled with creations during the darkest hours of the night, under pseudonyms, illegally. The artists are not exactly alone though. In these same spaces where they dangerously trespass to express themselves in paint are also the likes of homeless people and drug addicts. The walls are masterpieces but the ground is littered with garbage, needles, rubble and remanence of “sleep setups”.
The spaces are being utilized in a very polarized sense; a place for the artists to work in large scale and for night dwellers to do drugs. One of the places is the railway which runs along avenue H in Brooklyn. With so many miles of what could be a beautiful public place, perhaps a park like Manhattans Highline, it makes little sense as to why it remains the way it does. It could remain a space for the artists without the midnight climb or the constant looking over ones shoulder for authorities as well as become so much more as it is picturesque all on its own during the day. The city should be paying more attention to the spaces they leave unattended as they are becoming a petri dish for criminal activity both of the innocent and dangerous varieties.
