scott radke

Upon many a drive through Clevelandia, I've seen these murals by Scott Radke on the side of dance studios, corner stores and restaurants, and love the little critters and ballerinas painted in blacks and pastels that lend themselves well to the grey shrouding skies of my city. My next-door neighbor from college and I bonded over our love of classic rock and Cleveland art, and spent an afternoon driving around taking pictures of all of his work that we could find.

(the above were taken by yours truly), those below are by the man himself... the first two are the same structure, now demolished to make way for development and such. These faces were always strangely comforting to me, oases in an increasingly generic world, and I miss them.