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A cool thing I saw this summer: an old man painting a Rimbaud poem on a wall.
It's official, government-sponsored street art and the building is the office of the revenue service. I wish I could have seen how he did the top sentences, they're really high! But he was surprisingly fast and when I came by again, he was done and gone. The poem is written from right to left and there's a sign explaining why: Rimbaud first told that poem in a café place Saint-Sulpice (which is just on the right of that wall) and they like to think that's where the wind was coming from, hence the right-to-left poem. Okay then...
These days, this is the kind of street art I'm keeping my eyes open for:
So far I've only seen two of them. Maybe it's just me projecting my obsessions, but it sure looks like there are mayan glyphs in there. I want to know who does these! A poor man's Keith Haring who's also a mayanist?
