The other day I went and met up with someone who had contacted me on Facebook about an upcoming project. I am still working out the details on that, so I will just leave it at that, but I agreed to meet with him and go on a photo walk to chat.
He lives in an Area of New Bedford I had not been to before, so it was a good chance to check out a new area.
The walk took us past some more of the docks here in New Bedford that I didn't know existed and along the way I saw some cool street art and murals, which will be the focus of today's post.
Before even leaving his apartment complex, which happened to be old Industrial mills converted into apartments, in the car park I saw someone had been doing some chalk art in the car park.
Including this ice cream, when I started the walk it was a bit coolish so I had a jacket on, by the end of an almost 2 hour walk it had heated up and I was sweating away in my jacket and could have appreciated an ice cream.
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And near to it, this one is simple but true: we all need to be grateful for what we have.
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His work often incorporates things that are there, such as the crabs in this one
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We passed by these train wagons and the colors caught my eye
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and more
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It's a mural by artist David Ortiz, who in the art world, he goes by Primitivo, and the mural is celebrating Puerto Rican Heritage
The interesting story about this I remember reading recently is that midway through the project, some people stole all his art supplies, and when the community heard about that, they quickly chipped in and got him all he needed to finish it off
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now this was a mural also clearly in progress, it was behind a locked chain-link fence so this was the best photo I could get of it,
It is beside a Fried Chicken place, but I didn't catch the name of it but they did have this cool art on the wall
Some street Art