A few miles from the permitted street-art frenzy of the RiNo Art District, on a stretch of the Sand Creek Regional Greenway between Commerce City and Denver s Central Park, graffiti artists, activists, vandals and a muralist have been painting walls and signs. In the process, they ve created a display of competing ideologies and emotions as baffling and fraught with contradiction as any cultural space in this country.
Some works beg viewers to fight for justice or pay attention to nature; others express existential angst; one depicts a hooded bigot. Styles range from high art to the kind of dick doodles that enshrine truck-stop toilets.