Initially I could not decide whether this piece of street art sat better here on Sometimes London or on my urban blog London Edge. In the end, whilst street art is usually found on London Edge, I thought it was better here because (1) the photo is taken in Notting Hill which isn’t exactly urban (2) the sun is shining and (3) it is above an expensive Japanese restaurant.
"When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous." ~ Moby
"Velveteen" by Fin DAC, 2020
Arty-Fact: In the beginning, Fin DAC’s obsession with painting came out of a need to escape. He was a full-fledged adult when he went into the streets to paint his first street mural. He had never gone to art school, or gone the route of rising up through the graffiti scene as a teen. In fact, Fin DAC grew up with no plans to enter the art world at all. He was simply an adult with a normal full time job, living a normal life. And perhaps he would have remained that way, had an ugly breakup not driven him to look for an outlet that might offer a few moments of meditative peace. As his life crumbled around him, street art gave Fin DAC the stillness and beauty he was seeking.
Source: "This Street Artist Found His Voice In The Midst Of Personal Turmoil" by Allison Sanchez, UPROXX, 2017
¿Historias cortas para no dormir y así no tener pesadillas?
Fin DAC – Stencil & Street Art-ENKIL– STENCIL & STREET -Arte efímero-Callejero-¡Arte!
Fin DAC es un artista nacido en Cork, Irlanda, que vive desde hace tiempo en Londres y sus alrededores.
Con una relativamente corta carrera en el arte urbano, ha definido y perfeccionado un atípico estilo de pintura stencil que ignora el idioma visual aceptado del street art casi en su totalidad.
El lo llama «estética urbana», una forma moderna de arte tomada del movimiento artístico del siglo 19. Autodidacta e inconformista, sus influencias van de las novelas gráficas a las obras de Francis Bacon y Aubrey Beardsley.
This mural, Shesha Sand Storm, by Fin Dac and Starfightera (Christina Angelina), is on the side of the Desert Shores market near Salton Sea in California.