Grafitti
Yesterday I was driving through Canarsie on my way to Park Slope. Took a break next to a vacant lot that had this wall around it. I was inspired by the real graffiti there:
I tried to make sense out of it - Just what did this kid do? I decided that he squashed the drunken-styled letters together, and added ‘graffiti-stuff’. I wish I had some photos of the big graffiti productions here to show you. I tried to turn this graffiti study into a production-type image:
Good - especially the Wesley one. But it was too tedious to help me represent this attitude (when appropriate) at Caricature Parties. So I went back to the original reference, copied it, and tried to apply That:
Maybe I’m just making up stories, but I wonder if Grafitti might be ‘ghetto’-art. Crowded conditions, not enough supplies so they had to squash their letters together on the paper….
