If you are a New Yorker feeling the burn it could be the Hasidim who lit fires every two blocks in parts of Brooklyn Friday to mark Passover (see our final image). The smoke and ash were staining sidewalks and wafting through neighborhoods until being washed away with the Purple Rain Friday night, or maybe those were just the collective tears of so many who were mourning the sudden death of a loved one, Prince.
“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today, to get through this thing called life,” he inveighed to us in the beginning of one of his songs, and we’re going to have to find a way to celebrate his life when this heaviness passes, but for now a black lacey veil seems more appropo. Yes, Street Artists have begun to put up their tributes, and we hope to have some fine examples to show you next week. The one featured here by Pussy Power was actually up before he passed away.
So here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Balu, Bast, Christina Angelina, Dain, Dee Dee, FTW, Icy & Sot, Irwin Bakx, Kid Super, Kuma, Purge, Pussy Power, ROA, Star Fightera, Thomas Allen and Wall Play.
Our top image: Icy & Sot “let Her Be Free” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Thomas Allen (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pussy Power (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dee Dee (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dee Dee (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kid Super . Wall Play (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Feel The Bern (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Did She? (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kuma Purge (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Star Fightera for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Star Fightera for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Balu (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Balu (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ROA. Wynwood District. Miami. (photo © Irwin Bakx)
Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)
FTW (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Passover ritual. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. April 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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