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At pavement graffiti asphalt rules and grey is good. The focus is on roadways and footpaths, and ‘graffiti’ means anything written, drawn, scrawled or stencilled on them.
I have been photographing pavement graffiti since 1999. Now I am taking a closer look at those photographs for a postgraduate project at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
At pavement graffiti we will traverse the asphalt, concrete, flagstones and cobbles. And we will contemplate the inscriptions there – from graffiti tags to public artworks, children’s games to political slogans, stencilled ads to personal messages, traffic signs to memorial plaques, manhole covers to mysterious marks (and for now, that should be enough tag words to attract a searcher’s attention).
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#1 by woo at May 7th, 2009
Excellent, thanks for the trackback – I’ll pop by again, sounds like an interesting project
#2 by John Ake at June 18th, 2009
Had a read of the blog and it’s great. I’ll stop by every now and then and keep up with the any changes and updates.
It’s very hard to go past Arthur Stace’s effort. The very simplicity of that word – eternity – speaks volumes .. it’s poetic, prophetic and the lettering is artistically attractive. My prediction is, this simple “artwork” and it’s message, will reverberate down the generations long after you and I are gone.
I’ve just been watching the Channel 9 evening news and they carried a story on three (3) aussie males prosecuted in London for their graffiti work on London trains – “train graffiti”. Apparently they’d done the same in Japan and Spain and are reputedly part of an international train-graffiti movement.
#3 by Lisa Orander at April 19th, 2010
Hi! My name is Lisa Orander. I’m a student at Sydney Film School. We are shooting a short film and are in need of a chalk artist. I googled and found this blogg. I just wondering if you have any contacs with artists that could possibly think of coming a do a drawing of our film shoot?
Kind Regards / Lisa Orander
#4 by Colin Hubert at July 19th, 2010
On Wilson St – http://www.flickr.com/photos/25063581@N08/4806718733/