Textura: Valencia Street Art

In my opinion, there is nothing better than walking a city without a particular destination in mind and stumbling into art. In Rome, you can literally stumble into the Fontana di Trevi, the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, especially at night. Once, when I was 15 and in Venice, my friend Natalie and I thought it’d be cool to scribble “La dolce Angie & Natalie boo” on a wall. That was our idea of art. We laughed and thought about how cool it’d be to come back one day and find that exact wall (an impossibility, I’m sure).

But a new book titled Textura: Valencia Street Art (Mark Batty Publisher) showcases much more interesting street art through the images of Luz A. Martín, a native of Valencia whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Time Out London, El Pais, El Mundo and The Herald Tribune.

Martín has been wandering the streets of her hometown for years, capturing the unique artwork that lives on its walls, buildings, alleyways, and structures, which prolific artists use as their canvases, particularly in an old neighborhood called Barrio del Carmen.