Gilberto Esparza and some terrifying art

I used to have nightmares about this kind of stuff.

http://www.parasitosurbanos.org/

I think what scares me the most is the idea of inscrutable organisms that inhabit the cracks of the world, not meaning us any harm. In fact, they mean only to survive, but that drive is threatening when their proliferation might mean our destruction.

In my nightmares, though, they were always alien—I guess the point of this is that these things aren’t alien, they’re the result of an imperialist attitude towards nature that seeks to impose a human order on the world (robots that feed on trash, power lines, or buzz around in subways). The irony is that this urge results in the evolution of “natural” things in the midst of the landscape we try to tame—our efforts to sterilize the world for our well-being are naught, and the cancer of the urban environment develops its own cancer in order to restore balance to nature.

All in all, it’s effective and creative street art.