Street art · Rome

Hunting Pollution

By Iena Cruz

Who is this laurel-crowned figure staring down the wall in stark woodcut lines? He echoes Dante's exiled gaze, rendered in inky crosshatching with red drips bleeding through—part homage, part warning about pollution eating away at Rome's heritage.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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