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Abraham.O

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      Abraham.O is  a London-based artist born in El Salvador. I love his (and Zabou's ) photorealistic portraits. Stratford Kingston       Shoreditch Harlow, Essex Crystal Palace Penge       Looking At The Sky by Abraham.O is reckoned to be  London’s largest non-commercial street art mural ...        Using rollers and household brooms, it took the artist a whole week to complete this huge mural on a rooftop car park that was scheduled for demolition. The work was funded entirely by donations from the people of Penge (Penguins?) who contributed £1600 towards Abraham.O's materials, which included over 300 litres of paint.     Having seen the splodges at eye-level, I really can't get my head around how he did it.      A year later, the building is still there. But there is no longer any public access. In any case, assuming it's still there, you would need a drone  90 metres abov...
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GRAFFITI TUNNEL

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  Leake Street There's a good chance you'll see artists at work ... Some might even let you have a go ... ... although brandishing a can of red spray paint is maybe not the best idea if you're wearing white.       The regulars are well represented, including  Abraham.O, with three offerings ...       This  3-D image, built up with layers of threads,  has to be the painstaking work of Perspicere .. .      NB  Perspicere is the present active infinitive of perspicio , meaning roughly “to see through,” “see clearly” or “perceive".  (Bob of the Shires or Alec of Tunbridge Wells please check). Mr Doodle has left his mark(s) ... ... including a self-portrait ...       The murals change frequently. But it's good to see two portraits by  Olivier Roubieu  are still here. The one on the left is  of  Zabou ...   Another mural intended to remain is   Blek le Rat '...
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