Artist Juliana Santacruz Herrera has taken to the streets of Paris to repair unsightly potholes and cracks with braids and braids of colorful yarn. Reminds me of what artist Jan Vormann did with Legos. Love!
(images from here)
Project Pothole
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I love this!!! How creative. All of the different colors are so pretty!
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This is so cool! I’m going to be in Paris next week, so I’m definitely keeping my eyes peeled for this!
Stunning. Love works of art that you just come across on the street. Makes art accessible to the general public. Your posts always make me miss my art history classes so much! They get me thinking so thanks for that!
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So much better than graffiti, more creative these days too! Did you ever hear of the rogue knitter in Jersey? Check it out!
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This is awesome! I love finding random art like this.
Love this. Nothing like gratuitous beautification of the streets. So happy-making!
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what a fun idea!
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i’ve never seen something like this before? where is it? so interesting and different.
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If all the potholes in LA looked like this, I think I could actually start to like potholes.
Unbelievably beautiful.. can they please seal it – so it stays like that forever.. we could really use some of those in NYC!
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I love stuff like this
Thanks for sharing it, More artists need to take to the streets in creative ways like this, everyone would be so much happier. Maybe I’ll dedicate my summer to making my city more colourful ! xo
Love it…. street art is the best.. stuff that’s just out there and you just walk by and it and enjoy it without having be in a gallery or some space. great post… they should go to LA or Beijing to do this
thats awesome! she missed sum spots there tho lol
soo childish and fun. i love it!
seriously, this is too cool! i wish someone would do a diff version in NY.. maybe in the subway or something.. god only knows that needs a little sprucing up!
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I love street art like this so much – it just makes the world that little bit more beautiful and colourful. Knitted covers for lamp posts and trees etc have been popping up everywhere in Sydney.
I love this!!
my goodness ive never seen something like this!
These are great!
this is so funny!!! and very creative
This is definitely the coolest thing ever. The colors are beautiful.
these are amazing!! where do you find all this genius stuff!?
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That is really awesome and so creative! Thanks for sharing!
I love this so much.
Really inspiring blog ! Love this post !
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Here’s another artists’ group fixing potholes!
http://www.fixpothole.org/fixpothole/Welcome.html
there is something about finding completely spontaneous, gratuitous art like this that makes you feel that all is all right with the world. imagine stumbling upon this on a grey day. love this and thanks for sharing.
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Ooooh what a lovely idea!
Reminds me of an article my sister sent me about an artist in London who decorates snail’s shells and lets them carry on crawling the streets as ‘street art’!
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love this! reminds me of yarn bombing.. so fun and beautiful!
who sees a hole in the street and says to themselves… i think ill fill that wiht yarn lol soo cool
I’m really impressed. I want to know the time of day that they put the braids in the pot holes. What happened to the traffic. My luck, I’d try that and get run over by a vehicle.