{"id":597,"date":"2010-09-25T22:48:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T12:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=597"},"modified":"2010-10-16T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T08:44:09","slug":"foetus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2010\/09\/25\/foetus\/","title":{"rendered":"Foetus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rue Ste Croix de la Bretonnerie<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a case of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcyou had to be there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. In several streets where I have walked, mainly in the 1st<\/sup> to 4th<\/sup> arrondissements, there are these large paintings on the pavement of a foetus, sometimes in the womb. They are not stencils but the uniformity of the different renditions and their size suggests that the act of painting them involved a performance calibrated to the artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body measurements. I could speculate about what event, cause or band they were advertising, but really I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. I suppose the meaning of this graffiti was understandable at the time when it was done.<\/p>\n

The foetus in Rue des Halles is an example of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclayering\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,\u00c2\u00a0where one piece of pavement graffiti is laid over another \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in this case the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcofficial graffiti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of a pedestrian crossing. The photograph also shows a pair of police on roller blades.<\/p>\n

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Rue des Halles<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a case of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcyou had to be there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. In several streets where I have walked, mainly in the 1st to 4th arrondissements, there are these large paintings on the pavement of a foetus, sometimes in the womb. They are not stencils but the uniformity of the different renditions and their size suggests that <\/p>\n

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