Derived from heavy metal album covers, São Paulo’s distinctive street writing is rooted in a desire to protest against inequality in Brazil’s largest city. But some pixadores now fear their work is being ‘sold out’
  • hipgnose@mastodon.social
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    7 months ago

    @wakest a pixo that I like was in the Pátio do Colégio, a historical jesuit square and church that marks where the city was founded, the first building and the catechization of indigenous people.

    The jesuits were kicked by the settlers, because of the settlers interest in indigenous slave labour and some time later it also received the government of São Paulo.

    Nowadays the square shelters a lot of homeless people. The “pixo” reads “olhai por nóis”, meaning “watch over us”.

    Picture by myself.