Adding appeal to a neighborhood by having local artists decorate utility boxes has become a thing. The adorable utility-box sea creatures below, however, have their work cut out for them as the only agreeable aspect of a heavily trafficked truck route between parking lots in South Boston.
I’ve taken photos of quite a few decorated utility boxes in the last couple years, and I think they work best in places where they support other amenities — trees, flowers, attractive storefronts. Otherwise they seem to be fish out of water.
The unusual mural in downtown Providence is an example of street art with companions. The crazy Alice in Wonderland-type clock, for example, is nearby.
From other recent photographic undertakings comes shell art in Wormwood Park, sun-drenched crab apples, and a floating flower in the Greenway.
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I love especially the floating flower–but the art on the utility box is a close second.
Thank you for calling out the flower. I wanted to do a post on a local director and friend who just died — with that as my only photo. But somehow it never happened. Perhaps I will do it yet, but her memorial service at the theater was so full of funny memories and laughter, I couldn’t make the pensive flower fit.
The flower photo is my favorite, too. I hadn’t known about the painting of utility boxes–I like the “every blank space is a canvas” approach!
I would love to see the marine-themed utility box in that South Boston wasteland transform everything around it. Who knows? Stranger things have happened.
Utility Box Art Transforms Cities, Impacts Lives >> http://segmation.com/blog/2015/10/04/utility-box-art/
Nice. Thanks.