Cousin Chas on Graffiti

One of my favorite of Chas’s art posts on the topic of a graffiti exhibit which i hope to see when I’m in LA next week to read from Among the Goddesses @ the LA Festival of Books.  Every time I see great graffiti, I feel like I’m in the presence of a powerful wild animal, one that looks me in the eyes and knows far more than i do–like Aldo Leopold’s moment of encounter with the Wolf:  “We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”  Thank goodness, we have learned a bit from the mistakes of that generation and now we can look out the train window and appreciate the wolf’s eyes, maybe even bring them into the museum, maybe even begin to build a true ecosystem, like this collaboration between Yo Yo Ma and Lil’ Buck.  You  tell em, Chas!