Graffiti (observation & humble brag)

I absolutely adore graffiti. I think it's an apt commentary, modern and acute. It's the opinion of every man, tangible to the naked eye, as long as it's done out of protest, as a crime. 


People wonder about the tags... I wonder about the people behind the tags. I love catching glimpses of them on walls and new paint... I love seeing a tagger evolve their work over time. And the best galleries is when you have to sit at a passing train and you wonder about where those freights and cargo containers started. Where were they tagged? Was the person doing the art, were they from where they were tagging? How does one live on the streets, let alone keep up with its decoration?


There was one well-known tagger from at least 30 years ago in ATL who tagged a lot of old buildings. You could see their work from the vantage point of MARTA, traveling the east line into the city. A lot of their tags have been erased due to gentrification and renovating the older buildings. Property owners hire professional muralists to decorate their buildings, now. DOSE and VAYNE are my favorites....


There's this Coca Cola sign that I had always admired. The execution must have been a coordinated effort. I have always wondered about the person behind the DOSE tags. I made a tshirt about it. Nowadays, the back of the sign is left black and empty. Why? Because some hooligan from N'awlens covered our sign with their colors! PUSH OFF! ....into traffic. So now we don't get any art. We have a blank, black canvas. Much is Atlanta. 


[HUMBLE BRAG]

It's one of my favorite shirts. I have it in "Charcoal Heather"



Snow.

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