More street-art photo-ops
The activity is called flacking, a creative and street-artsy way to repair cracks and shallow holes in sidewalks with mosaic tiles. The above is undoubtedly the work of a French urban artist and ceramicist known as Ememem. He has been fastidiously leaving his mark on pedestrian ways in France and Europe, but mostly in Lyon in Paris, since 2016. His cheerful works are generally welcomed so that now Ememem has the support of local cultural organisations.
The reparations seem to be in the spirit of the traditional Japanese art of kintsugi in which a broken porcelain or cermamic object is decoratively pieced back together and given new life. In the practice of kintsugi the fissures are painted with gold powder to highlight them, making esthetic what had once been broken. And so goes flacking. It's a happy event to look down at the pavement and discover that the scarred, gray asphalt beneath one's feet has been, so to speak, reinvented with a pretty, polychromatic touch. I randomly happened upon this example near the Musée de Cluny in Paris. There are so many more.
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