excretions & territorial marking

Yesterday I went to North Bank Park and found some of the graffiti represented below to have been covered with commentary or response. Though I did not have my camera at the time, I will feature the altered images in an upcoming post whenI get the pictures.

Though I do not know the gender of the writers of the graffiti I find, studies have shown young males to be the most frequent authors. Government and academic authorities often express condescension and scorn for such youthful delinquencies, as Robert Anton Wilson reminds us in Prometheus Rising, primitive territorial marking is also a practice of the authorities: "Most mammals mark their territories with excretions. Domesticated primates mark their territories with ink excretions on paper."

Here we have this dialogic process beginning...the underlying word is "writing" in black over which the blue text replies "stop haten!" - certainly food for thought...