Up Laurel Canyon, right off the slim two-way street that snakes up the hills onto Mulholland Drive and towards the Hollywood sign you’ll notice a certain patch of crumbling concrete wall. You’ll notice the wall because of what is usually displayed there: most often its a graffiti artists masterpiece, but at other times, the wall decries societies ills or the philosophy of the local subversive culture. The graffiti lasts only a couple of weeks before it is painted over in black, and as the city’s budget tightens, I think it more likely that the artist paints over the old to create a new canvas, rather than the city using resources to clean up local scribbling. Currently on display from tagger K47 is a back-lit ballerina, and from the looks of it, she’s in mid pose from Swan Lake.
NO SAINTS IN L.A. 
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