Signs and walls.
May. 16th, 2009 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckVia wooster:
Here's a link to a German artist using Lego to mend the holes in Berlin's walls - most of them left over from WWII. He did something similar in Tel Aviv and a small village near Rome.
If you look closely, you can still see this past in our cities. There are quite a few bunkers left and several of them have been taken over by artists, like the cone-shaped one in my neighbourhood which now sports a golden dome or the big concrete boxes where bands rehearse. Sometimes their outsides become targets for street artists, too, as in the linked picture from Bremen. In my childhood, the bunkers sported sprayed slogans calling on folks to join the next anti-war demo. Now these have faded but you can still make them out.
Then there are the genuine war time messages: A white arrow and sometimes three white letters, L.S.K. or L.S.R. to show the way to the air-raid shelter, like in this picture of a house around the corner from here.
Here's a link to a German artist using Lego to mend the holes in Berlin's walls - most of them left over from WWII. He did something similar in Tel Aviv and a small village near Rome.
If you look closely, you can still see this past in our cities. There are quite a few bunkers left and several of them have been taken over by artists, like the cone-shaped one in my neighbourhood which now sports a golden dome or the big concrete boxes where bands rehearse. Sometimes their outsides become targets for street artists, too, as in the linked picture from Bremen. In my childhood, the bunkers sported sprayed slogans calling on folks to join the next anti-war demo. Now these have faded but you can still make them out.
Then there are the genuine war time messages: A white arrow and sometimes three white letters, L.S.K. or L.S.R. to show the way to the air-raid shelter, like in this picture of a house around the corner from here.
