Friday, January 7, 2011

surprise insights

Graffiti, generally disparaged, can sometimes contain surprise insight. I've shared some of these insights in earlier posts like my Belle Isle hydro plant entry. Sometimes the insight tends towards celebrating the immaterial as here:

Other times, the insight is a bit more sensual, earthy and crude...
(if not a commentary on unrestrained male lust)
or anatomically confusing....

...or simply celebrating pleasure

In the example below we can see a subtext of rude lustful demand
like "TITS OR GTFO" juxtaposed with surreal statements like
"The cake is a lie." 
(how is this possible?) 

Or more confusing signs like this:


F5F5F5F5F5
FapFapFap
The Game.
Bitch.


Who knows what esoteric communications reside in these seemingly random markings?









1 comment:

  1. I believe Graffiti to be a type of art. Despite the negative connotations people invoke when describing it, I think all types of Graffiti transmit a sort of message. It is hard to imagine that its author generated something completely random - even random thoughts must stem from an idea.

    I found the left part of the last picture particularly interesting. At first, it seems the author was just listing random words. However, on closer examination, the reader can observe the author's obvious praise for the heavy metal band "F5". This is a sort of signature of the author, an explanation of his persona. The "fapfapfap" onomatopoeic usually carries a sexual connotation and is used here to draw attention to the next phrase: "The game". The game is a thought suppressing type of game, played by everyone in the world. The rule is that you lose if you think about it. Therefore, the reader automatically looses, and the winner must point this out. Here, the author uses the word "Bitch" to make this obvious.It is impressive how much information can be condensed in so few words.

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