My first love! I remember the first time I became aware of graffiti in a chinese restaurant bathroom. A tag on the side of the hand dryer. I wanted to recreate it so I drew a middle finger on a porta potty a few days later. I was 8.
I like Barry McGees summary of graffiti best, "Communication on the simplest form". For all the negative aspects associated with graffiti, and I mean the internal issues not the external vandalism labels, it is a remarkably democratic and human way to proclaim your existence.
My virgin experience of graff was from a Sonic bathroom, noticing sharpie marks and getting ideas.
Great McGee quote! Simple is right. While fine art has a perennial tizzy about what substrate is and What It Means to Paint Now, graffiti skips the bullshit entirely and just produces on the most available surface. It really is open, leveling, and free.
My first love! I remember the first time I became aware of graffiti in a chinese restaurant bathroom. A tag on the side of the hand dryer. I wanted to recreate it so I drew a middle finger on a porta potty a few days later. I was 8.
I like Barry McGees summary of graffiti best, "Communication on the simplest form". For all the negative aspects associated with graffiti, and I mean the internal issues not the external vandalism labels, it is a remarkably democratic and human way to proclaim your existence.
My virgin experience of graff was from a Sonic bathroom, noticing sharpie marks and getting ideas.
Great McGee quote! Simple is right. While fine art has a perennial tizzy about what substrate is and What It Means to Paint Now, graffiti skips the bullshit entirely and just produces on the most available surface. It really is open, leveling, and free.