When I was bored at school I would doodle on my jotters and that did make me feel better and my jotters were improved by being covered in images of far way places - visited only in my dreams. Reality was cold and grey at times and boring..
So it is with the trains I am seeing at the other end of the golf course where we walk the dogs. They are ugly rusty and huge and a blot on the landscape.. However during their journey from Glasgow to Ayr, some creative people have dared to make these huge monstrosities look better..
I was looking out for the latest graffetti on these local coal trucks and was amazed at the latest version and how much more interesting the trucks looked after their make over.. The graffiti artist's canvas was a metal grey one and the palette dark green, and their brush a paint can.
The word WEANS was elegantly sprayed on several times in repeat pattern which looked quite beautiful from a distance. There was a good use of the arrows and dots in the writing which pleased me as I am beginning to see a use of artistic genre here.
The significance of the word WEANS as a tag only makes me think of some groups of bored youths hiding near the railway sidings - fed up with life and almost crying out for attention. Art therapy indeed! Yes both the beholder of the work and the creator should benefit.. I can only hope my teacher was uplifted and not annoyed by my works of art on my boring jotters.
Maxine Greene suggests that art must come from without and from within and that helps to make a person whole.. I agree..
Here are some of the images I got from the trains.
However I could not do them justice as the original images were more like a pattern one would see on a pair of curtains until you looked closer and realised it was graffiti.
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