Street Art: The Three Ladies and their Men

By Hessa Al Habshi

For the past month or so, I've grown a bit obsessed… obsessed might be too strong a word for it… maybe ‘fascinated’ by street art around Kuwait. It started when I went to Dahia to take a photo of graffiti on the back wall of their supermarket... 

As I was about to leave, I saw something in the distance that caught my eye. It was a silhouette of a woman on the electric transformer (?). When i moved closer to it, I found that on every side of the "electric transformer" was the silhouette of a woman and beside them was a saying.

             A few weeks later when I was at Starbucks Nuzha, a place I actually visit quite frequently, I saw something that I don't recall ever seeing; on the electric transformer (المحول) outside was some street art. Unfortunately, someone had ruined them with paint (that same someone should be pushed in front of a car or something)... It was the men version of the graffiti. I'm not sure which of them came first, the men or the women but I like to pretend it was the women who were drawn first.

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