There was one final gift for Bristolians that Shalak Attack and Bruno Smoky (Clandestinos) left behind on their recent trip to Bristol…this brilliantly colourful masked face. This was another surprise for me in Wilder Street, an area which is now firmly on my routine street art patrols.
There is something of acarnival feel to this piece, and it has an unmistakably South American touch.
I still feel privileged that Clandestinos came to Bristol and left these remarkable pieces, however the story is not all good I’m afraid. The piece I wrote about by Shalak Attack in Stokes Croft has been tagged with a rather poor ‘throw up’.
The great piece next to it by SPZero76 and Mr Wigz has similarly been defaced. For less than a week, all five arches of the Carriageworks had clean untagged pieces in them…a first since I have been writing these posts. No longer. It is the nature of the beast I’m afraid, but disappointing nonetheless.
Natural adventures 
Holey moley to the first image. At least you know that someone will come along and cover the taggers very shortly.
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I clicked on a link in the Wilder St / 3Dom post to get here, but since I’m here …
… I very rarely manage to get a shot of anything at the Carriage Works that hasn’t been tagged. I sometimes wonder what motivates the artists to spend so much time and energy in creating a work of art that some mindless moron is going to tag before the paint’s dry. I was lucky once though and got a shot of a Tom Miller piece as soon as he’d finished it! Sadly such opportunities are as rare as rocking-horse manure!
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You’re right. I love quite close, and walk to work past the Carriageworks a couple of times a week and even then the new pieces are often tagged. It is a complex problem, but one that the Street/graffiti art world seems to deal with.
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