A bench on the Boston Avenue Pedestrian Overpass near the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. I don’t think this is an official color scheme for the city. I think somebody, on their own initiative, painted the bench red and stenciled the images on in honor of three performers. I don’t know how long it has been like this but from the worn condition of the red paint I think it has been there for some time. I think that some graffiti is unofficially tolerated in our fair city. I notice that some “bad” graffiti disappears quickly but more artistic graffiti is allowed to stay, at least for a while. I run on the cities Riverparks trails two or three times a week and I’ve noticed that a lot of graffiti in visible areas disappears where more “artistic” works have been allowed to stay. I don’t know who is making the call, the guy or gal with the brush or one of their bosses but I applaud the judgements being made.
Still there, as of last week.
Painted over, for some time.
I like to see a little discretion used by our public officials. When they mouth “we are just following procedures” to justify stupidity it makes me cringe.
Does anybody out there have any idea who the guys on the bench are?
My friend Jen in Oklahoma City started the Graffiti Wednesday meme is posting about graffiti today.
I don’t know who they are, but I like the bench. It’s nice that they left it that way.
I approve of some graffiti too. Sorry I don’t know who the performers are.
There is some graffiti that I like, too, and this bench is cool! I don’t know who the performers are either. Don’t get me started on public officials and the ” we’re just following procedures”!! Hope you have a good day!
Sylvia
Quite often “procedures” suck. I tolerate graffiti on human made structures much better than on nature, but give me art.
Like the bench but don’t know the performers.
Some cool graffitis there!
I’m glad the third oiece of graffiti was painted over as it was ugly. The bench, in the mean time is quite pretty!
Not all graffiti is created equally. The bench is very striking. Its proximity to the Jazz Depot makes me wonder if it is not part of their art. They have some neat things inside and maybe this is theirs too. I don’t know but I like it.
le banc est magnifique, j’adore les peintures dessus
Cool jazz; cool bench.
I’m guessing if you’d gone into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, someone in there would no who those people are.
Love that fish as well – wish I could paint like that.
Is the middle figure Wynton Marsalis? I like that bench. What some writers accomplish with stencils amazes me. Are these stencils anywhere else?
Your graffiti writers seem to love the place they’re in. They decorate rather than defile.