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An icon under the bridge, revisited 

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When I first saw this Dough Joe portrait of Miles Davis on Herman Street underneath the D. B. Todd Blvd. bridge, I did not realize it was a canvas. You don’t see many of those in outdoor art, but the bridge helps to protect it. The lettering below has changed recently. What used to be a very simple “Inspiration Place” has become an exuberant “Love the Hood.” The portrait of the white-haired individual is someone I recognize but can’t name, [UPDATE: It’s Nikki Giovanni] and is newer than the other two. I also include a stencil that may or may not be a Norf Collective production like the rest of this.

Located below the Dr. D. B. Todd Jr. Blvd. overpass on Hernan Street, between 18th and 19th Aves.

I featured the Hendrix portrait in An icon under the bridge.

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V! Something

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This piece has been up at the industrial ruins at 5323 Centinneal Boulevard at least since March 2016. My graffiti reading skills are no match though. Either I can’t figure out the letters, or I can and the word doesn’t mean anything to me. Also on site is a smaller but equally boisterous tag. This is valuable property in The Nations, so I don’t expect this stuff to last.

UPDATE: The “ZEW” tag low to the ground has been lost to development.

Located at the intersection of Centinneal and 54th Avenue North, near the intersection with New York Avenue. It’s all fenced off, but a small gate near the crumbling wooden building on 54th was open when I took these pictures. An abandoned industrial site, so be careful.

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The ruins of 21st and Linden

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There used to be a building here. It was striped, white and black. A fairly anonymous building where people used to work. I drove by it any number of times; now it’s gone. No doubt something will replace it soon enough. Which means the drawings and tags on the retaining walls are definitely temporary. A couple of them are interesting, notably the horse and bird and the Statue of Liberty.

Located at what would have been 2101 West Linden Avenue, on the west side of 21st Avenue South. You can park on Linden easily and walk down into the ruins. This is likely to be a construction site before long, however.

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The Habitat for Humanity Store on Division 

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The Habit for Humanity Restore on Division has devoted the entire west side of its building to a series of panels, most in a graffiti type style. Because of the placement of a particular tree, however, most of those panels fall under the category of “hidden art,” as you are not likely to notice them when driving by. This piece honoring the now-defunct Nashville arena football franchise, signed by Bryan Deese, is highly visible, while the pieces below require you to get out and do a bit of exploring to see. It’s also impossible to pull back and get a good view of the whole wall because of a covered fence. In the first shot below, you see the only “wide” shot one can really make, the rest show the individual panels, moving north to south. The Kats panel itself is at the far south end of the wall. It’s not clear who or how many people were involved in making these “hidden” panels, and the black single line drawings of a chicken smoking and the “you are awesome” guy may be later tags. There does appear to be a signature on the first panel, the one at the far north end of the wall, which I read as “Taikz” or “Tackz.”The images below run north to south. Comment below if you know anything about the artist(s).

Located on the west wall of the Habitat for Humanity Restore at 908 Division St. There’s a lot of paid parking around, but if things aren’t too busy you can park at the Restore or at Yazoo Brewing next door. The murals can also be accessed from the alley behind the Restore.

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Jokers to the right

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No, I’m not going to feature every bit of graffiti in town, but this one was hard to ignore as I was taking pictures of the Gibson building.

Located at the top of the stairs across from the Gibson building at 1117 Church St. Park below the bridge.

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Super visible, very temporary, hard to reach

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This graffiti installation is highly visible as you head south on I-24 just past the I-65 interchange but before the Jefferson St. exit. It’s temporary of course — that’s way too valuable real estate to leave it in place for long. Expect it to disappear soon.

I can’t really shoot it from the interstate though, so I tried to approach it from off Dickerson Rd. The various businesses along that stretch of Dickerson though have a lot of fences and a lot of razor wire, and this is as close as I got, looking through a fence at the end of a driveway on the north side of Capitol City Scaffolding. It was only after I got out of the car that I realized the end of that driveway is something of a homeless encampment. I didn’t feel unsafe, but I did feel rude just barging into their space.

Located between Capitol City Scaffolding and I-24 at 808 Dickerson Pike. Maybe if you ask nice at CCS they’ll let you back there, but the place looks like a bit of a fortress. Best viewed heading south on the east side of the loop on I-24. And soon, as before long this post will likely be the only evidence it was ever there.

Well, the artist probably took pictures.

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2401 Clifton Ave., Part 1

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Two very different works grace this building. On the west side we find this exuberant graffiti installation signed by @thebuffdaddy. The Instagram account by that name corresponds to a Miami graffiti artist and “union painter” as he bills himself. Not too surprisingly, the work on the southeast side of the building, though quite different, is also the creation of a Miami artist. Somehow, I doubt that’s a coincidence.

At, well, 2401 Clifton Ave., a padlocked building by the railroad tracks.

On to Part 2!

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