
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.
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Hey where is that "graffiti is watching you"? I've seen that before too...
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