Chapter 1: Melrose
Made my way up La Cienega, with the intention to get to the cross on the mountain by the Ford’s Theater. No particular route in mind, I’d been up Highland ave. recently, and figured I’d go up La Cienega to maximize how much I see once I started heading east.
Turned on Melrose. Why not? It’s been a minute since I’ve been down Melrose, and I know they’ve got great graffiti art.
I was surprised to see how empty it was.
I was intrigued by the sign on the building next door. Was it as grassroots as it seemed or was it a design choice? This was * off * Melrose btw.
As I wrapped back around towards that intriguing building, I saw these murals. Looked legit. Just hoping its not performative.
Circling back around, I was able to find a parking spot to get the picture of the mural across the street and the yarn bombing to my right.
Catty-corner to the yarn art, was a lot of graffiti, plaster, and stencil work over what had clearly been an commercial mural. So I loaded back up, went back through the alley once more and then back in front of Marilyn and onto Melrose so I could safely turn left over the deserted Melrose Ave., and onto the street to better examine the stencil work.
To be continued…