Tuesday
Tuesday's Flash Focus: "Painted Faces" in Freak Alley
Sarah Black of Bannock Street Press recently sent me this "graffiti" flash by Tim Jones-Yelvington. She writes, "I really love Tim's story, such a tiny perfect story. I'd been photographing the graf in Freak Alley for illustrations for one of the books, and asked Tim if I could put his up as sort of an add for the press. But once I had it up, I felt like I didn't want to use it for commercial purposes, but wanted to just put it out there in the world."
"Several groups watched me paint it—a group of teenagers, a couple of the Greek cooks, and a blonde waitress. The cooks and waitress came out so often and stood around I thought they were going for their dope, hidden in the alley—but then I realized they were reading it!"
Painted Faces
Tim Jones-Yelvington
(originally appeared in Keyhole)
posted on 28 Jul 2009, 1:37 PM
I read this when it was up at Keyhole-- It's one of my favorites of Tim's work. It looks great there in the alley!
posted on 28 Jul 2009, 1:45 PM
Thanks for the note about Keyhole, Matt. I added that link to the article.
posted on 28 Jul 2009, 2:38 PM
This is also one of my favorites of Tim's and it is so far out on the wall! Nice going, Sarah!!
posted on 28 Jul 2009, 4:08 PM
I was wondering about Freak Alley and Sarah sent me some more information: Freak Alley is the alleyway between 8th and 9th street in downtown Boise where the graf artists are allowed to paint. Very cool!
posted on 29 Jul 2009, 2:14 AM
Sarah, Tim: i love this so damn much. It rocks, it absolutely ROCKS!!!!!! what a combo. Such beautiful writing and art and graffiti - the whole world here.
posted on 29 Jul 2009, 1:25 PM
So cool for all the world to see. Love the piece, Tim!
posted on 29 Jul 2009, 5:57 PM
Absolutely, Meg!
posted on 29 Jul 2009, 5:58 PM
Interesting how things might be painted over this. I wonder what's to be found under it and, eventually, atop it.