Earthlines are urban landscapes under the view of a street artist. In these places, earth, solid and close material imposes to the sky, untouchable and ethereal related to those things far away from our reach.
This dark scenario where white blocks emerge is made with acrylic paint that reacts together with other elements such as salt, air, water, oil paint and spray paint on a fabric that becomes an area of unforeseeable result. This is in parallelism with the object of representation: ‘the city’, where uncountable factors interact with unexpected consequences.
Street artists are obsessed with urban spaces. Buildings become white canvases contrasting with a dark scenario. In these landscapes of plastic and cement, citizens give life to an always changing environment in a process of osmosis where the place also changes the people. What exactly is the citizen’s role? Working and consuming? Inhabiting these spaces trying not to leave any trace behind?
Street artists just succumb to their obsession: the wall. This is a tribute to this obsession which opens the debate in relation to the management of common spaces. They are simply individuals who decide unilaterally to modify a part of it, while everybody else is pushed to delegate decisions that affect this habitat. This anomaly, in a half-way between art and vandalism, shakes the urban routine and provokes mixed feelings to the viewers. In this space of co-existence, what should be the level of involvement that a citizen has in the decision-making process of the issues concerning it? Why should this right be delegated?