Serendipitous art: Overpainted graffiti

Graffiti and over-painted graffiti on a concrete wall looked like art to me--unintended art. This was near the entrance to the tunnel that runs from John F. Kennedy Drive behind the De Young Museum in San Francisco into the plaza area between the Academy of Sciences and the De Young. Given the proximity of the latter, I wonder if this wasn't to some extent intentional, but it appears to be random. We'll never know. In any case, it arrested my attention. 

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Serendipitous Art: Yellow Curb Paint and Exposed Aggregate (July 10, 2021)

Old paint and a strip of exposed aggregate at the curb today caught my eye. Unintended art. 

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Serendipitous Art: Ceiling Shadows (July 23, 2020)

Shafts of light reflecting off a car parked in the driveway and shining through blinds left this pattern on the ceiling. Unintended art.

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Serendipitous Art: Scratched Blue (April 16, 2020)

The scratched bottom of a blue plastic cooler looked like art to me. Serendipitous art.

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Serendipitous Art: Green on green (November 27, 2019)

This abstract composition in shades of green, found on the side of some sort of electrical access box, looked like art to me. Serendipitous art.

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Serendipitous Art: Rust Wires and Shadows (June 8, 2019)

A tangle of rusty wires and the shadows they cast looked like art to me.

Serendipitous Art: Red Tape Line on a Black Floor (February 23, 2019)

A line of orange-red tape on a battered, black floor. Serendipitous art.

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Serendipitous Art: Windowpane Landscape (January 31, 2019)

A green windowsill and a cloudy sky in a windowpane looked like a landscape to me, looked like art to me. Serendipitous art.

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Serendipitous Art: Red, White, and Black (August 5, 2018)

A perfect, unintended composition. Paint and glue on concrete. Serendipitous art.

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Serendipitous Art: Tape and Numbers on Green (April 16, 2018)

Tape and scrawled numbers on a green-painted sheet of metal looked like art to me. Serendipitous art.

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Serendipitous Art: Scratched Door (March 29, 2018)

Scratches on a metal door looked like art to me. Unintended art.

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Serendipitous Art: Paint and Shadows (August 19, 2017)

A patch of paint, a spill, pieces of tape, and light came together to make this unintended composition. Serendipitous art.

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Serendipitous Art: Dustpan (June 22, 2017)

A paint-smeared dustpan leaning against a wall looked like art to me. Unintended art.

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Serendipitous Art: Rust and Red and White (May 17, 2017)

Rust on a pole painted red and white looked like art to me. Unintended art, serendipitous art.

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Serendipitous Art: Black on Black (February 2, 2017)

Black paint on black boards in a window painted black with a black frame. Black on black. Unintended art.

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Serendipitous Art: Worn Floor (September 29, 2016)

When traveling in Europe, I've always loved seeing the edges of stone steps worn into softly dipping curves by centuries of foot traffic. This patch of worn flooring in front of the cash register of a local grocery store is somewhat less dramatic, but it looked like art to me. Serendipitous art.

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Serendipitous Art: Chain Link Fence Shadow (August 20, 2016)

The shadow of a chain link fence cast on a white-washed store window looked like art to me. Unintended art, serendipitous art.

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Serendipitous Art: Lichen on Fence (June 18, 2016)

Lichen-covered fence boards looked like art to me. Unintended art.

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Serendipitous Art: Incised Tree Bark (May 16, 2016)

A cross-shaped incision in the bark of a tree and the background of natural fissures around it looked like art to me. Serendipitous Art.

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Serendipitous Art: A Wall of Invisible Marks

Recently at the De Young Museum in San Francisco I saw a wall covered with marks—marks made by human hands—around the hand railing on a staircase. They are invisible in most lights, but, at one oblique angle and with the light coming down from above, they appear momentarily...until you move slightly and they become invisible again.

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