This photo-essay explores the textures, accidental markings, and interplay of the graphic elements that appear on city street surfaces.
The elements that form these compositions are manhole covers, cracks, paint, oil spills, tire marks, foot prints, tar, snow, and salt deposits. Randomly combined, they form a unique art.
Sometimes patterns contain secrets—a form of hieroglyphics—that if decoded, would provide insight into our lives. Is life's mystery embedded into these random patterns? Does what appear as haphazard textures, shapes and lines, actually a roadmap to our collection conscience?
Until we are successful at decoding them, they are offered for their unique aesthetic—an aesthetic that rivals the best abstract art displayed in any museum.
Abraham Menashe