Word Art

I recently stared at a Mel Bochner piece I had never seen before for awhile last week. As much as I gave the Kraus Campo crap when I was at CMU, there is something about an artistic venture that involves words that makes me happy. Maybe it stems with my fascination of quotations. I used to look up quotes to every movie I saw and highlight the best lines of books, type them up and print them out. So, when I see actual made-by-their-hands street art with words, my heart aches. My favorite of all time was in an alley in Pittsburgh that read, "Graffiti is Watching You." I never got a photo of it, after all the times I walked by there. But after a recent trip to NOLA, and finding an especially great quote written on a wall (see photo on left), my dormant passion for this specific graffiti motivated me to go into my photo archives and pull a few others out.

"If you want sympathy, you'll find it between shit n syphillis in the dictionary"

I'm not sure whether it's the harsh quote itself, the fantastical ideas I have about the person who wrote it, the pete sticker or cougar paw, probably there much before, or the great shadow dragging across it; but I love it dearly.




Past CEO's Sleep on Park Benches, Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, PA



















Love Notes on a Cactus, Agrigento, Sicilia, Italy









Being in love is the most glorious two and a half
days of your life, Strip District, Pittsburgh, PA














La belleza es tu cabez, (the beauty is your head) Roma, Italy