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Tue Jul 03, 2018 7:34 am

ADORABLE!!!! Sweet find, Dee! Each one is more delightful than the next! Her mermaid hair & her delicate face! More, more, more!!
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Every single one is perfect.

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Thu Jul 05, 2018 11:40 am

Dee wrote:
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I particularly love all the ones with animals in - the interlacing curves and sweep of the forms. This one is one of my favourites as well as:

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The feeling of union and peace is so marked in this that maybe it is my absolute favourite. The way they are woven together and their eyelids echo each other is the embodiment of contentment and intimacy. I find it quite moving.


BUT I think this a stunning in a different way.
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The vibrancy of the colours is wonderful and I love the fact that she hasn't included an explicit form - just let her shapes do the talking and suggesting.
Great stuff Dee- :x

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Fri Jul 13, 2018 4:04 pm

So happy you girls love her pictures too!

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This is the first painting of hers I have come across and saved it, enamoured, but didn't know the artist back then. It's nice to be able to identify her work now.
I really like how this painting has aged. It works so well with the faded colours and crumbled off paint, don't you think?

I think this is the same when it was freshly painted?


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Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:43 am

These make me ridiculously happy. The faded work that you found first is simply beautiful & it gives such a different feeling than the freshly painted version. She openly admits that knowing the works will change and fade is all part of her artistic process; as she explains in the article you posted:

But they don't always stay around for long. The artist embraces the toll that weather and time take on her pieces—in fact, it's part of her process. No matter the city in which she creates a piece, she makes it knowing that it won't look the same the next day. As the days pass, it might even disappear completely. The magical women will fade just as quickly as the artist brought them to life.

"I love painting on the streets, because for me, street art is as ephemeral as time is, as we are," Silla tells Creators. "I like being aware of the impermanence of things, the passage of time, it helps me work on emotional detachment. I like to be be surprised by life and realizing that the city is alive, that the walls deteriorate and change."


Here is an interview with the artist; she mentions Valparaiso (Chile, I assume?) as being a very inspiring place for street art. I poked around a little & it truly looks like a fabulous, colorful, vibrant city. I've never even considered going to South America, but why not??!
https://www.wanderlustchloe.com/valpara ... treet-art/
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http://www.isupportstreetart.com/interv ... ndiferent/

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Sat Jul 14, 2018 1:09 pm

What a lovely interview. Great find, NR. Your mission in society? Fill it with colour and make people smile... sounds just wonderful, and our kinda person!

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