I just walked out of the local butcher here in Lagos, Portugal this morning and detected two new murals. Although I´ve been here many times I haven´t seen them so before.
They looked promising from the distance so I got out of the car again to take some photos..
As I came closer I discovered something unusual. That mustache does not look like it was painted by the original artist, that by the way is Tars8Two, an artist I featured in one of my previous posts.
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So in my opinion, the moustache, the tears as well as the crossed crown on the left side are crossings of that beautiful piece of art. The crossed crown could mean a targeted diss against the artist as he uses a crown in his tag.
Same you could see on the other side of that building. Beautiful mural, but crossed with absolute nonsense.
I think that this is just simply stupid and most likely comes from people who don´t have talent. My guess is, that it was the same people who tried to be artists on the long side of that building. As you can see, they´re not really that good. :)
While crossing usually means the following "The spraying of someone else's tags - also known as crosses - is seen as an insult. Especially in the gang subculture of the United States, tags are used to mark the territory of a street gang.", I´m pretty sure here it´s just about envy and stupidity.
If you ever think about doing something that stupid...let it be.
