This was our first exercise for at UCA. We were supposed to work in groups and make observations in a certain environment (in this case the Shoreditch Triangle) and negotiate views and ideas and come to a common consensus.
As I visited the area, we strongly got influenced by its street art. All my team members also agreed with me on this note. We as a group decided to make a website to present our observations.Following is my impression of the area:
Art of Revolution
My idea of street art initially was that it is revolting by nature. The people who do graffiti would come out in the dark of night and discretely spray away their anger on the walls of people and disappear.
Commissioned
The visit to Shoreditch triangle changed all that. I saw that people expressing their feelings through street art and it being widely accepted among the society. Some pieces of art seemed like they were exclusively commissioned by the property owners.
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They express the business of the establishment very beautifully. For example a shop called Locksmiths had an interesting logo, but the main attraction of that shop was the huge safe door painted on the front of its main door. It also had a physical rotating handle on the door, just as on the old safes.
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But there are some images which just seem to be the personal expressions of the artists themselves. It seems that every now and then artists would find something which is irrelevant in the daily use or is of no use to anyone and turn it into an art piece in itself which attracts your attention.
This was my observation on the visit to Shoreditch triangle. The rest of the presentation can be see in the form of a website at the following link:
