Look Again (8 Photos vol. 2)

Street art that uses what was already there

A drain, a sign, a wall fitting or a parking stop finishes each of these eight jokes. Move any of them a few feet and the idea stops working.

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🍳 Fried Eggs Manhole — By Tom Bob in New York City, USA 🇺🇸

The dark manhole cover becomes a hot frying pan. Two eggs, a painted handle, and the surrounding pavement are all Tom Bob needs to serve breakfast in the street. Untapped Cities calls the frying-pan manhole the Tom Bob piece New Yorkers may know best.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsFried Eggs Manhole (Alphabet City)Tom Bob · Documented 2015 · New York CityAlphabet CityTom BobManhole art1The Dusty Rebel documented the work in Alphabet City in August 2015.thedustyrebel.com2According to the reproduced artist caption, the intersection is Avenue C and East 2nd Street.viewing.nyc20153 AugPhotograph published by The Dusty Rebel; capture date unspecified.201728 JulFrying-pan work discussed by Untapped New York.201711 AugViewing NYC reproduces the work and the intersection caption.Read the full file →

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🍟 French Fry Girl — By Tom Bob in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA 🇺🇸

The yellow parking stops were already fry-colored. Tom Bob adds the girl, the fork, and the bite. The artist’s own post places the work at 1637 Acushnet Avenue.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsFrench Fry GirlTom Bob · 2020 · New BedfordNew BedfordTom Bob20201The yellow parking blocks suggested the fries, according to Fun 107.fun107.com2The public-art map places the work on the south-facing wall at 1637 Acushnet Avenue.datma.org202019 JulBefore-work preview dated in the artist embed; reproduced by EMEFKA.202020 JulCompleted work reported by Fun 107.202017 SepEMEFKA publishes the before-and-after artist embeds.2026JunListed as entry 53 in the public-art map; no new condition photograph.Read the full file →

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🌍 Stain — By Pejac in Santander, Spain 🇪🇸

A painted world map swirls down into a real street drain. The work is documented under the title Stain, and Pejac’s own portfolio of outdoor work lists it as painted in Santander in 2011.

💡 Artist Fact: Pejac was born in Santander in 1977, so Stain was painted in his hometown. He studied at the universities of Salamanca and Barcelona and at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsStain (Mancha)Pejac · 2011 · SantanderSantanderPejac20111The work is also known as Mancha.street-art-avenue.com2Street Art Avenue dates the Santander work to March 2011.street-art-avenue.com2011MarCreation month reported retrospectively by Street Art Avenue.20146 JanStreet Art Avenue publishes photographs credited to Pejac.201628 JulYatzer discusses Stain in a retrospective passage.Read the full file →

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🐊 Storm Sewer Alligator — By Tom Bob

A bright green alligator crawls out from under a real storm sewer cover, as if it lives underneath.

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🚧 Sign Intervention — By Clet Abraham in London, England 🇬🇧

Clet Abraham adds one small figure, and the white bar of a no-entry sign becomes part of the action. The streetlight above finishes the scene.

💡 Artist Fact: The French-born artist moved to Florence while struggling as a painter and started putting plastic stickers on the city’s road signs. City officials tried to remove them, but he kept putting them back faster.

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🐙 Octopus in the Drain — By Sandrine Estrade Boulet in Marles-les-Mines, France 🇫🇷

A drain cover becomes the octopus’s body, and the grate gives its tentacles somewhere to begin. Street Art Utopia’s earlier post places the work at Festival Les petits bonheurs in Marles-les-Mines.

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🥊 Wall Fixture Fight — By JPS

A small metal tap fitting on a gray wall becomes a ledge. One stenciled figure stands on its plate with arms out, and the other tips backward as if punched.

💡 Origin Fact: JPS is Jamie Paul Scanlon, born in 1977 in Weston-super-Mare near Bristol. Urban Nation traces his start to a 2009 stencil exhibition, after which he made his first works with a rusty scalpel, old charity-shop books and spray paint.

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🕹️ Lemmings on the Sign — By Pappas Pärlor in Motala, Sweden 🇸🇪

The yellow bar of a no-entry sign becomes a Lemmings level. Five bead lemmings walk along the top, a sixth blocks with its arms out, and one more digs straight down through the bar. Behind the alias is Swedish artist Johan Karlgren, whose bead work, according to his gallery BSMT, spilled out of his studio onto the streets of his hometown, Motala.

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