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Bastardilla

Bastardilla is a mysterious street artist who traces snakes, humming birds, lonely long-haired ladies and cactuses onto walls and windows in Bogota, Colombia. She is one of the most interesting characters within this city’s strong and vibrant street art culture. The vivid, curvy lines sometimes mixed with colour glitter express in such a powerful way how this city can both embrace and harm. Her drawings can also be found in dark, small corners of cities like Barranquilla and Cali, where she has silently and gracefully left her mark. [see also No Para Innita]

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Daniel Santiago Salguero

Young Colombian artist and photographer Daniel Santiago Salguero creates images from simple digital photographs to personal diaries which drive a world of imagination, colors and unique perspectives.

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The Take It Easy experience in Barcelona

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natgia said | 23 October, 2008

Such a great example of Colombian Street/Urban Art. Bogotá is shining thanks to Bastardilla…
Big fan of this,
Keep going up Bastardilla!!!

keudaL said | 21 February, 2009

really impressed by your pictural stone-work … !!!
Beautifull and a lot of paz inside … at the same-time, i enjoy a lot the way you do it.
I’m a fire juggler, free-showman but more rarely busker. I like to make it on beautiful sites and i would like you to paint on the lights produced by only petrol-flamming.
To be true, i’d like u paint over ma whole village !!! In France !!!
have a nice trip from happy family
a puinguin

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