Whole Car

This boxcar was parked on the rails across the street from our house for about 12 straight hours today. I finally got a chance to walk down and get some shots of this "whole car" piece, incl. some nice closeups.

Note that only the lower third of the boxcar is painted. That's common, and it's due to the fact that the average graffiti bomber of average height can only reach up to a height of about seven and a half feet. In case you've never been close to one, boxcars are larger than they appear. Hence, the low graphics.

In the third photograph, note how the graffiti lays down right over the terrain of machinery and movable parts. If you study the graf and the top lever, it's possible to detect that, when this piece was painted, the lever was rotated 180 degrees clockwise.

Judging by the different styles represented, yet the thematic unity, it appears that this whole car represents the simultaneous efforts of a crew. The "Get Well" message at the end seems to indicate that the piece was painted for the benefit of a sick or otherwise un-well person. What would you do if you fell ill and yr friends got together to sneak into a train yard under cover of night and spend a few hours painting a mural on a whole boxcar for you? If you ask me, that's some beautiful shit.