The Other Art Gallery

To say the least this summer has been hectic. If someone had told me everything that has gone down this summer back in May I would have slapped them in the face and told them to get real.

I was expecting the summer the same way it has always be, but life has changed in more ways than one.

As the doors to this unforgettable summer close and the gate to the rest of my life opens, I'm having serious troubles looking into the future and seeing what's going to happen. Decisions have to be made and I can't just float along with whatever seems to happen.

Thats life though... life is the unknown and the truth is it wouldn't be any fun without it. Change is good and I need to embrace it.

Enough of this ranting...

I experienced one of the coolest places in my life while in Chile, it was the culmination of different things: art, nature, and crime.

This place was a tide pool that a bridge had been built over. When I think tide pool I think natural and clean but this place was not the norm.

The underside of a bridge is a place for graffiti artists to thrive. In this scene these artists had to deal with nature and create there art when the tides were right, while still having to deal with the authorities and the risk of getting caught. Under all these circumstances, they created the coolest graffiti I had ever seen. This graffiti wasn't the normal crap you see in the states, it truly was art, and the funny part was I couldn't picture any place better for this art than exactly where it was, under a bridge that crossed a tide pool.

Whoever created this wasn't looking for recognition... it was difficult to reach this place and the truth is... why would anybody want to? I happened to be lucky enough to stumble upon this "art gallery" at the perfect time where the tide was low enough to get under the bridge and I was only able to stay there and shoot for 10 minutes, then the tide came back in.

By far one of my favorite experiences.