phenomenology 4: FLASHING EPHEMERAL (a)
I have seen plenty of just-so-so or bluntly bad-and-horrible graffiti tags in Reykjavík, and quite a few gems. But only two of them stand as the ones that dazzled me…
Tag: Nor'atlantic city art
phenomenology 3: KESOG (c)
So… yes, that wall, Autumn 2016: And the same one in late Summer 2017: And only years later I have realized the small black tag was jut the wonderful rounded…
phenomenology 3: KESOG (b)
And here is one of the (not the only one!) recent re-discoveries of this tag on screening through the photo archive. And it belongs all the way back to the…
phenomenology 3: KESOG (a)
The extent to which the COVID-19 quarantined our lives is amazing… Difficult to understand how until today I have been unable to continue one of the most valuable sections (and…
the (pre-pandemic) sanctum
the Holy Grail of pre-COVID era Reykjavík street vandalic artists
The Monument finally caving-in (early 2021)
Everything goes, nothing persists, that being even truer for street art. Back in early February this year, I plunged briefly into cyberspace in search of cues about the fate of…
the ‘Google magic’ unravelled (kind of…)-2
So: nothing in Street View helps with the state of The Monument after my autumn 2019 visit. (First part of this micro-history, here). All views of the place belong to…
the ‘Google magic’ unravelled (kind of…)-1
Note: the following text composed a note I made (now I discover…) back on February 6, 2022. Even the photos (now I discover!) were ready, watermarked AND stored in my…
just an oddity today about Google Street View
This week, when navigating Reykjavík through Google Earth, I came across a curious feature with a consequence on my previous post (about the last developments in the site of The…
masterpiece gone, masterpiece come…, then just gone
Last November, in the wake of my previous post on Buy Me A Coffee about the decay in 2019 of my favourite Reykjavík murals, I had the idea of checking…
phenomenology 2: an Icelandic ‘Muelle’? (i): final recap
the all-encompassing final ‘Muelle’ gallery!
phenomenology 2: an Icelandic ‘Muelle’? (h)
back to the origins: the classic ‘Muelle’ pattern