Recently I described my observations on Belo Horizonte’s graffiti scene. I saved two photos for later because there is another sub-genre of graffiti that doesn’t fit into the general definitions I described in my first post. Political graffiti is a category of its own, and is often done for different reasons than why someone would …
The Red Team v. The Blue Team
These days the windows rattle to throbbing beats until 10pm nightly. Dust drifts down from the rafters. The family dog has lost a kilo (or two) from sprinting to the garden wall–always the same garden wall–every two minutes to defend us from invisible intruders firing rockets. What’s happening? It’s politics, Brazilian style. Candidates do come …
