- What a lovely canvas
I barely hit the ground running today before the day exploded: we got hit with taggers sometime over the long weekend – and not just our building, like last week. No, this time, it was our building (again), plus numerous locations on campus. I didn’t even have the heart to peek at the artwork this time around. All I know for sure is that it was much larger, more complex, and had four colors instead of just two. Perhaps if I’d had my camera, I would have stepped around the side of the building and taken some pictures.
There was plenty of other things going on, as well, but the graffiti was definitely the most pressing; then it was the HVAC and its ongoing issues; the clogged up sink that needed a good snaking (ooh, that sounds dirty, doesn’t it?); the reconfig and attendant moves associated with it…all in all, a busier day than normal, but at least there was no time to be bored.
- Naturally, I would have preferred a couple of mohawked punks instead of the cops in the picture.
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I’m very mixed (no pun intended) over the tagging thing. I mean, I admire it on fr8′s for it’s sometimes startling beauty and oftentimes it’s astounding execution, but it’s still vandalism. At its best it’s wildly creative, extraordinarily colourful and sometimes very thought provoking (I’m thinking of a certain huge stenciled tag entitled “Focus, Drone!” And it’s still illegal and annoying as hell when it’s on your building and oftentimes is just punk kids.
Ah, the world.
@irrelephant I knew you’d chime in on this one. But I’m in total agreement with you on the mixed feelings towards it. The tagging often speaks to a huge talent that could be channeled into so many other things, but often is lost in the shuffle. I was talking to my company’s very own Romana II about it yesterday and she thought the same thing. It’s a shame, because it *is* so annoying and costly to address, but so ingenious and beautiful, too.
I hear that a lot, the “channel it elsewhere” thing, and I have to mention that I’ve seen larger cities turning stretches of otherwise bland concrete walls into ‘approved’ graffiti spaces. The projects and display length are monitored, so that a certain piece goes up with previous permission from the Powers That Be, and there is a set time it stays up before it’s overpainted white and someone else has a go. I know it’s not going to address the thousands upon thousands of kids who do it for the thrill of illegality, but…