Undaunted by the dumpster's name, meaning Mr. Mouse, I went exploring in a back alley bordering on Jerusalem's industrial area, near old Romema.
Utterly unsettling was the graffito prompted by the wooden beam.
Ugh, what was this place??
Who had lived inside?
Unexpected was this piece of unusual urban ugliness!.
Unwittingly though, it turned out to be useful for ABC Wednesday's U Day.
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That is some serious ugliness there. What a surreal combination of graffiti in that second shot too. Gives me the willies...
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Well, not so welcoming, you're right Dina.
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A hangman and a flower in one wall that is some kind of weird. This site is common in the Philippines, something that has to be noted by the government. Happy Wednesday!
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hi beautiful Dina, well at least the dumpster has a name which is a notch up in life.
ReplyDeleteAround our city square they have several garbage disposals that were probably pretty ugly and they hired an artist to paint them And really every day they put a smile on my mind.
Imagine your dumpster with a beautiful landscape scene ha ha.You would have to give it a new name.
These images tell such a story. Great capture.
ReplyDeleteForget Wednesday! Trash Tuesday for certain. In the art world making use of the found object is referred to as "appropriation"
ReplyDeleteI like that you use the term graffito (very archeologist of you)
Ugly seems to be a word many of us have used in different ways.
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It definitely is Urban Ugliness but your capturing of it has an artistic bent to it. (:0)
ReplyDeleteInteresting pictures, and I enjoyed your words, as well. Thank you for sharing...the please inspire is sad.
ReplyDeleteUNSETTLING, UNDENIABLY. Thee's such a lack of UNDERSTANDING in the world.
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So many questions raised from each of the photos. So interesing. Each has a story, I'm sure.
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Comfort Spiral
Also I like the way you play with the dark shadowns and the blinding light of the first picture. It renders the image somewhat surrealistic.
ReplyDeleteSuch ugliness, yet beautiful photos. I have NEVER been a fan of city living.
ReplyDeleteI guess no matter where in the world we go, there are bound to be places that are not so beautiful or inspired as we would like. Some places just have a lot more than others!
ReplyDeleteIf this does happen even in the Jerusalem of Gold, no place is safe from this ugliness.
ReplyDeleteSpooky! What an unsettling feeling walking through there, non?
ReplyDeleteUrban ugliness can be so depressing, can't it? But it made a great ABC post!
ReplyDeletethoughtful u post.
ReplyDeleteOnly a photographer could turn such an atrocity into something interesting to view!
ReplyDeleteVery clever choice of U-words! Great photos too! I was almost going to use the word "un-ugly" and show somehing that I thought was not ugly. But I decided that it was not good enough and sounded pretentious - "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Your post is courageous, bold and yet understated. I like it, "ugly" as it is! Beautifully thought out!
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Anna
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Evocative photographs.
ReplyDeleteThis is quite disturbing... but interesting, actually.
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