Street art can be defined as
everyday reminders and representative of the beauty we can easily lose in
melancholia during our everyday monotony. Perhaps the most fulfilling of
mention, too, one of the most hideous of street art able to be found the world
over, is Apolo Torres’s [Girl Reaching Above the City].
There are skyscrapers, a sea-set in
the sky above the city, an adorable child on the tip of her toes, extending
herself, a backpack on her back representing growth in intellect and education.
At the base of her feet, there is a snack she’s unaware of, winding around her
legs and a Pit-Viper impishly looking up at her. We cannot assume but we can
establish what snakes have always represented since biblical times and how
childhood, that moment where the future generations grows, learns and blooms,
are ensconced in potential victimhood, surrounded by a jungle of predators
seeking to prey upon their naivety.
Apolo Torres’s depiction, which can
be found alongside an apartment building housing families, is a necessary
image, a frightening image, the sort one has no desire to see yet find
themselves unable to turn away when the event unfolds. If ever there are any
visions the masses should take in, it is the art, representing life,
representing danger, representing a will for longevity in the form of caution.
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