September 1, 2009. Anyone who moves through the East Village has seen these installations on lampposts, street corners, store fronts and many other sites. The texture, color and patterns can be wildly exotic, and I love them as an inspired addition to the streetscape. It looks like someone doing street maintenance, or marking the area for some rehab, added their own red paint, as if the glaze of the pottery, and splashes of color weren’t enough. When I took this picture I didn’t notice, what is to me, a grinning face in the middle of the composition. Large white teeth grinning out of a swirl of shards.
