Arofish stencil graffiti :: stray cats and bag ladies

stray cats and bag ladies

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CLICK ON PICS AGAIN TO ENLARGE. This is something I actually saw in Spain, when I was 19. I was on the road in Europe - hitching, sleeping under bridges, eating for free at charity places - that sort of thing. Anyway, I arrived in Valencia very late one night and was walking through some backstreets looking for somewhere to get my sleeping bag out and get my head down. As I went on the houses looked more and more decayed and derelict, and several had been burnt out long before. The light was poor, it had just rained and everything looked and felt miserable and a bit sinister. I turned a corner into a dead end alley and saw that it was full of stray cats - there must have been about 30 of them. The reason they had congregated there in the middle of the night was that 2 old bag ladies were feeding them scraps from their carrier bags. It must have been a regular thing. There was no one else around (just me, and I felt distinctly out of place). Anyway it stuck in my head and I thought I'd paint it. So there. It's my site and I don't care if you think I'm wierd.

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stray cats and bag ladies.

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stray cats and bag ladies, Cold Blow Lane, New Cross. Photo by Elvira.

Gallery: Arofish stencil graffiti

Album: Smoke Bombs - LONDON Graffiti