What’s the Difference Between a Parking Lot and a Playground?
‘Urban hactivist’ Florian Rivière and his DIY guerrilla tactics have transformed even the most ponderous of urban spaces and artifacts into gags, visual puns, and humorous critique. Rivière’s latest project “Don’t Pay, Play” divines sports complexes out of the checkered parking spaces of car parks, rendering what is generally perceived as one of the city’s greatest, yet unavoidable ills into potential public spaces.
See more at The Atlantic Cities. [Images: Julie Roth]
Juliana Santacruz Herrera uses yarn to fill in potholes and cracks in Paris’s roads and walkways. Check out her work here on Flickr.
(via Apartment Therapy Re-Nest)
See also earlier Everything Matters post here about pothole-inspired art, and Gardens in Unexpected Places post here about pothole gardening.
Potholes as Muse
Via posingwithpotholes:
A user submitted this Pothole Art project created by Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano.
See the entire collection here
