Frida Kahlo, a black cat, and others. A resident of Vidnoye, Moscow Region, decorates the town with mosaics.
On the streets of the Moscow region the city of Vidnoye You can find more than a hundred small colorful mosaics. This is how a marketer decorates courtyards and alleys. Alexey Metlitsky.
"If a person is distracted for a second, notices something unusual in the urban environment, and smiles, then my mission is already accomplished."- says he.
Metlitsky began decorating the city more than three years ago. His project is called "Shards" The marketer figured out the mosaic-making technology himself, starting with simple figures—a goose, a watermelon, a black cat's face. Now he makes complex pieces, including a portrait of Frida Kahlo and entire phrases: "We are still human," "I dreamed the world was ruled by love."
Metlitsky arranges his works according to a clear logic: he placed a frog near a fountain, a broom near a bathhouse, and a bat lives on an abandoned water tower. His mosaics can be found through an interactive website. map.
Thousands of city residents follow the street artist's work on social media. Among them are those who destroy the mosaics, and utility workers paint them over them. The street artist was prepared for this.
"Street art then takes on a life of its own, and sometimes that life ends.", he says on this matter.
One could say his works were lucky; vandals destroyed only part of them. The artist from St. Petersburg less fortunate: Her mosaic cat was destroyed in less than a day. She didn't give up and posted There are three mosaic hearts on the streets. Two of them were destroyed very quickly.
Video: Telegram channel "Oskolki"