Michael's Chalk

I used to do a lot of chalk drawings in empty parking lots growing up. I always had this urge to draw something huge, and chalk was a much less destructive forum than spray paint graffiti. I still had my fair share of run-ins with the cops while doing this. Although I was banned from several shopping plazas and asked many times if I was on drugs (which I wasn't), I was never charged with anything since the chalk would be washed away the first time it was hit with a Floridian downpour or a shopkeeper's hose. These adventures in art were always conducted late at night when the parking lots were their emptiest - Maximizing my canvas area.

So, it's no surprise that I was particularly intrigued (and had one of those "why didn't I think of that" moments) when I found Michael Neff's chalk outlines of the shadows thrown by the city's street lights. Being nocturnal by nature myself, I'm all too familiar with the way the shadows thrown by the lamp posts rearrange the city streets. It's nice to see Michael altruistically enlighten the day-comers of this oft-overlooked spectacle.

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