Layers of Time by sandra46
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Description
This is the back of an old, depleted building close to my home. The occasional passer-by can't see it any longer, since it's currently hidden by a fence and doomed to death (if it hasn't already collapsed) in the gentrification project of the area. Here there was a factory in the early 20th century, then after 1950s there was the so-called Gasometer or gas holder, and later the area became a parking lot while the powers-that-be decided who had to gain from the gentrification.It was during this time that homeless people, drug addicts, and writers elected this area as theirs. Now the crisis has slowed the project to a paralytic snail's pace and everything is behind a fence, also the wall of the former factory warehouse covered by graffiti, covered in turn by ivy vines, hidden by the fence....
Thanks for your kind comments.
Comments (54)
dakotabluemoon
Wow very interesting pic and story on this one.
blondeblurr
Layer upon layer, of different kind of happenings - all in the name of decayed art, as is - Vegetation vs. Graffiti! and immortalised here forever or is it? BB
artistheat
Excellent Capture
drifterlee
Very cool shot!
anmes
The colours here are wonderful, Sandra
Richardphotos
in my early days of painting one of my first large commercial jobs was to paint an office building(3 floors) and it was covered with ivy.removing the ivy is a very difficult job I like the textures here and a superb capture
icerian
Dear Sandra, very well seen and captured. Congratulation!
Darkwish
Very well done!
Hendesse
Great shot. Fantastic colors.
0rest4wicked
Well seen!
carlx
Excellent title and image!!!
wysiwig
A fascinating image. Perhaps a look at our future. Excellent capture.
felinx
Belle capture du grafiti :)
dochtersions
Such an interesting capture, with history to tell.
1358
time moves on, has her nasty way with surroundings.. I've seen the bad side of gentrification... in order to move out the homesless and the criminal elements, and restore a nieghbourhood to former glory, politicians will move artists into the area, giving them a home, studios, performace spaces, the like... soon others move in, coffee shops, restaurants, antique stores... the like, then in come the people who want to live in this new, revitalized area, rents go waaay up, artists can't afford to live there anymore... what to do... well, the politicians have this other area where they can move into... you know, to revitalize the neighbourhood... gentrify it... a cycle...
erlandpil
wonderful capture erland
jophoto
Wonderful image Sandra! Full of colorful mystery..
psyoshida
Spectacular looking building. Hope they leave it up it's a work of art. Great capture.
Bothellite
That is an enormously interesting photo and the explanation... thanks.
KatesFriend
That says something when graffiti gets overgrown. The tagger that once painted this wall might now have raised a family of his own by now. Mother Nature is perhaps the oldest graffiti artist. One which rate payers groups and low road populist mayors can not evict or arrest.
junge1
Great find and capture Sandra!
theprojectionist
This would make a great Abstract,great shot.
myrrhluz
Beautiful capture and postwork. I like how the reflection in the window seems to have been painted there. Wonderful colors and textures. Excellent image and title!
anahata.c
like others of your "back alley" urban captures, this has history, hidden realities, strange juxtapositions brought on by time & decay, and a sense of life once vital and now gone---along with a sense of something to come beyond the horizon. (In this case, that gentrification you spoke of.) You captured not only the morass of natural growth that overtakes these spaces, but the juxtaposition of the organic with the artificial, ie, with that amazing graffiti. The greens in the paint parallel the greens of the vines. And the vines themselves are harmonized by the deep dark inset windows, here captured with an ominous purple glow. You do these shots better than most, and when I see places like this, I'm not nearly good enough yet with the camera to capture a tenth of what you capture. And while it has sadness and loss etched into it, it also has that same sense of crossing of time that your shots of multiple historical periods have---only, this shot captures it all in maybe 100 years. Marvelous, mysterious, dark and even magical. And feeling doomed (which it is.) Tales are hidden in those shadows... I have to stop here, as I'm still catching up. But I will make a point to come back this time, as I've barely tapped the surface. And btw, my favs aren't working for some reason, so know that you'd get some if they were.