MELROSEandFAIRFAX is big fans of the 'Love Me' street campaign by artist Curtis Kulig, but we are not enjoying his latest addition to what was a beautiful street art wall. We feel that this addition doesn't add anything, but takes away, and guarantees that this wall will be buffed soon, just like the two other walls that Love Me did this to (one time going over a Banksy piece on Beverly).
In general, we love the way the 'Love Me' tag looks, and think that this fire extinguisher effect would look great on an empty wall.
But by going over a wall full of art, it looks bad and ruins the art.
And Curtis has done this to two other massive art walls in Los Angeles within the last year on a building front on Beverly going over dope pieces from Banksy, Inept, Dog Byte and others, and a slammed alley way further up La Brea. Both walls had ridden for a long time, but were buffed clean soon after they were hit up by the 'Love Me'.
This particular piece seems to be very poorly done. If we hadn't seen other new street art from Curtis in the area recently, we might think this was a hack job. The style is done very sloppy, and aside from going over all the street art, it is just the wrong building for this. With the signs and door overhang, it is not a flat canvas, and the piece looks very weak and awkward.
Simply put, we don't love this, and some might say it is the height of a spot jack.
Up on the wall before the 'love' was street art from BAnkrupt Slut, The Loyal Subjects, ASVP, Zombie, Alec, Septerhed, Insurgency Inc, JTS, Cyrcle, Leba, low_d, and a few more.
