Im trying to carry my camera with me as much as I can these days. Because you never know when a photograph will present itself.

Almost missed this example of tiny street art while on my way out for some ramen.

What is street art? Street art is subversive art. That is, it is an art kind whose essential value is its subversive value. Subversiveness, as I have also called street art’s subversive value, is a capacity to challenge the corporate regime of visibility, that is, those social norms regulating visibility in the modern city, by appropriating public space in carnivalesque ways. Its subversiveness, on the one hand, sets street art apart from official public art, while, on the other hand, placing graffiti at its very core. Thanks to its subversive value, street art functions as a practice of resistance, in particular against the commodification of public space, which is a dominant trend in the neo-liberal city. Street art turns the urban landscape into contested space, while reclaiming urban visible surfaces for free expression. It is not merely a way to bring art in public spaces. It is rather a creative attempt to reclaim the city – even if only temporarily.

–Andrea Lorenzo Baldini