117254 South Waco
Portrait wall and graffiti piece on the building behind the chain-link fence at Dany’s Automotive and Tire, 2616 Speight Avenue · artists not on record · the wall signs itself with a block of painted Instagram handles at its right-hand end, the clearest of which reads @anti_stc · know who painted it? Tell us.MURAL
One long South Waco wall speaking two languages: painted portraits and full wildstyle graffiti.
Behind a chain-link fence on Speight Avenue, one long wall is having a conversation with itself in two completely different languages. On one stretch: portraits — women painted among sunflowers and roses, and a man with a magnificent mustache, rendered with real care in soft grays and greens. On the next: a full-blown wildstyle graffiti piece in ice blues and silvers, letters folded into letters until reading them is a puzzle for insiders.
Portrait and letterform are usually kept on opposite sides of the tracks — one gets called a mural, the other gets called a problem. Here they share a fence line, and the wall itself takes a side: painted into the composition you can find 254 SOUTH WACO — the area code and the neighborhood, which is to say, a signature. This isn't a wall somebody decorated. It's South Waco writing its own name.
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