“I think about you all the time but I don’t need the same. It’s lonely where you are come back down and I won’t tell em your name” - Goo Goo Dolls On a bridge laden with graffiti in one form or another, I’m not sure what drew my eye to this particular area of the Chestnut Street Bridge, but whatever it was, I’m glad it did. The photo’s subject is one of my favorite pieces of “found art” that I’ve come across here in Philadelphia; for those that say graffiti can’t possibly be an art form I suggest you Google Banksy. And like all good art should, the words got me thinking about the artist’s intent: Is it meant to be ironic? Is it a statement on graffiti culture? Is it completely random? I’ll probably never have a definitive answer and every time I cross the bridge and look at it I always change my own, but that’s what’s so cool about art; once it’s out there, it’s for the public to decide what it means.

“I think about you all the time but I don’t need the same. It’s lonely where you are come back down and I won’t tell em your name” - Goo Goo Dolls

On a bridge laden with graffiti in one form or another, I’m not sure what drew my eye to this particular area of the Chestnut Street Bridge, but whatever it was, I’m glad it did. The photo’s subject is one of my favorite pieces of “found art” that I’ve come across here in Philadelphia; for those that say graffiti can’t possibly be an art form I suggest you Google Banksy.

And like all good art should, the words got me thinking about the artist’s intent: Is it meant to be ironic? Is it a statement on graffiti culture? Is it completely random? I’ll probably never have a definitive answer and every time I cross the bridge and look at it I always change my own, but that’s what’s so cool about art; once it’s out there, it’s for the public to decide what it means.

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