Brick Lane: Hope Photograph

These shots were taken during an extended walking tour of the Shoreditch streets. Brick Lane is dotted with graffiti, posters and paintings. Most are highly rough, political and cater more to mind than to put one's soul at ease. Yet the very personal, outspoken, outright, reaching out style of this hood oozes with character and charisma for those willing to pay attention, for those with an open mind, for those who either have something to say or have patience to listen. These photographs cover a personal non exhaustive journey among the streets. Many of the items in question have been altered both in perspective and in content. My intention was to personalize what I saw, a way of merging, making it different while retaining the core of the original creation. Where this would have been successful, I'd wager that the effect is logaritmic both in style and meaning. Yet the jury is adequately out in such situations, opinions of aesthetic as well as of statement will differ widely. 2020 London, UK ... It is offered on Saatchi Art as 1 of 1 artwork and Open Print. If you buy the 1 of 1 edition, there will NOT be a physical shipment of the artwork. Instead I will send you the digital file. If the primary collector who buys the first original work wants, I will also mint a 1 of 1 NFT edition on either one of the art platforms I use or on a collection based smart contract. The artwork might also be offered as an NFT on a different platform, in such a case it will be removed from other platforms once the first 1 of 1 is collected. This artwork is based on a photographic adaptation of street art which I came across and in such references other artworks. Open Print will be stopped once the Limited Edition is sold and the primary collector requests so in writing. The creator can anytime decide to stop the Open Print. Please contact me at hotabak@gmail.com for any questions.