13 Flights of Steps Looking like Andean Blankets. All to Be Found in the Capital of Peru
Xomatok, an artist from Peru, together with a bunch of citizens of Lima, decided to paint prismatic patterns on steps going up the hills of the city. They are influenced by the blankets hand-made by Andean craftsmen.
This is what the effects of their work look like.
You can clearly see them from afar
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They climb up the hills like snakes
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And they are all amazingly colorful
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You can see them mainly in the poorer pars of the city
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There is no way you will mistake them with anything else
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Sometimes they look like a TV screen that needs more sharpness
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Each pattern is influenced by traditional folk clothes
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The colors are unbelievably juicy
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This classic Andean pattern is their distinctive feature
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Something rather modern
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Compared to the grey buildings around them they look so radiant
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If there are steps like that in your neighborhood, would you like them to be painted this way?