Graffiti, street art, vandalism, drunken scribbles, guerrilla communication, culture jamming – call it whatever you want.

Graffiti pieces focus on form, colour, technique; it is art, it is shape and message. The scribbles or stencilwork uses words and rarely seems to bother with the finer parts of typography or texture. It is interesting how something scribbled on a wall somewhere gets photographed and acquires yet another level of texture and meaning, in that it is yet again removed from context.

I suspect that a good deal of the ones I like the best are not written by people with deep philosophical or poetic insight (though it seems that way), but possibly by dopeheads or drunks with a pen. I will never know, and the statement can mean whatever I want it to, coloured by the grungy photograph; someone took a pic with their mobile, and for some reason uploaded it.

It is communication in a wonderfully abstract way. Sometimes funny, sometimes political, sometimes absurd. Guerrilla communication.

Huffington post Uplifting vandalism
Pictures of walls
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