Brighton Graffiti
Graffiti is the art of the survivalist. Half camoflauge and half beacon, it renders grey cinderblock and pasty beige stucco into semi permanent poster art. Part vandalism, part freedom of expression, part art, part protest – graffiti is the estranged godchild of cave paintings … and World War II propaganda. Ugly and beautiful, peeling off crumbling walls and over painted – again and again – inner city graffiti walls take on a patina over time. Each successive generation oscillating between McLuhan’s medium and Guevera’s raised fist. The message might be in the paint … it might be in the medium … but it hasn’t stopped perpetual transmission since the time we did it on cave walls.
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