Postcards from Québéc City

A shark rearing to chomp up a Fleur de Lys on a fishing line

Whenever I go somewhere new, I'm always lookout for street art and graffiti.  I think that you can learn a lot about political and social situations, as well as get a sense for a places humor through street art that you stumble across.  It is a way to visually connect with people from a place that is foreign to you through signs and symbols. In a way, these messages can help you make sense of an environment that is strange to you.  On my trip to Québéc City, I was quite impressed at the amount and the quality of street art on the old fortress walls of Old Québéc.  Québéc street artists create large, colourful pieces that appear to be stenciled or free handed onto walls.  I noticed that the use of text and words is abundant, and often acknowledges social situations in the area.

Most of the street art photographed in this post was taken from this particular stretch of wall.  If you walk along the old walls in Québéc City, you are bound to pass alleyway.

I think this is supposed to be some type of caterpillar/ worm.  I thought that the colours in this were fantastic, and made perfect use of the available slab of peeling plaster.

A big blue bird, made from a uniform stencil.

Bat signal, clock-man, teeth, and fake road signs.

Purple Yodas with luscious, pouty, red lips.

A detail on the Purple Yoda piece.  The text inside the heart reads "Error is human; Man is error".  The other text reads "If you want to control the excess, control the access".

I loved this hedgehog (?)! It seems to be of the same artist that made the blue bird earlier in this post.

More lips, and a double portrait.

Interacting with the work.

This portrait was done on a door in an alleyway.  It reminded me of Pompeiian frescoes because of its sketchy quality, and the figures facial expression.