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very nice. this adds yet another pressure to the already mounting pressure i feel to get a camera. i like tagging/graffiti/murals/whatever...i prefer the tags that pop to the paint signatures, but mostly i like that it is a consistent violation of bourgeois notions that the private and public are separate-------the idea that the private extends to surfaces that are up against a street, or passages or the outside of subway cars is, if you think about it, kinda fucked up.
i also like that it's a popular form that requires alot of skill to pull off. it's good that folk pay attention to process. it's good that folk make things rather than just buying them. so yeah.
obviously, the idea that this street art is strictly outside the gallery system or outside the more uptight world of "legit" art is naive at this point. there's a fluidity of boundaries and it's pretty clear that at least some of what you see amounts to public auditions, stuff for portfolios that are sent around with proper artist statements and such. it's been like this for years. so i don't see in street art a necessarily anarchist politics or a rejection of the Man---but i do like it. even the relatively crappy stuff that's around tiny town.
makes me miss chicago tho. that place has fantastic streets.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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