{"id":1,"date":"2009-05-03T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=1"},"modified":"2014-05-30T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T08:04:27","slug":"text-and-texture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2009\/05\/03\/text-and-texture\/","title":{"rendered":"Text and texture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to pavement graffiti<\/strong>, where asphalt rules and grey is good. The focus is on roadways and footpaths, and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgraffiti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 means anything written, drawn, scrawled or stencilled on them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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First up, one of my favourite photographs. It shows a lane off Enmore Road in Newtown.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I took it in 1999, not long after I started noticing pavement graffiti, and somehow\u00c2\u00a0managed to capture the texture and colours of worn asphalt on a rainy day. Some months later a smart coffee shop opened at the end of the lane and crumbling asphalt was replaced by regimented pavers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The graffiti is by Phibs. He is a big boy now, his art is used by advertisers, and his framed works sell for thousands. Currently he is based in Melbourne but he recently visited his roots. His\u00c2\u00a0show was at Oh Really Gallery<\/a>, not far from the laneway in the photograph. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>For the exhibition he sprayed the gallery floor with geometric figures like some of the stuff he was spraying on Newtown pavements back in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Welcome to pavement graffiti, where asphalt rules and grey is good. The focus is on roadways and footpaths, and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgraffiti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 means anything written, drawn, scrawled or stencilled on them. First up, one of my favourite photographs. It shows a lane off Enmore Road in Newtown.\u00c2\u00a0 I took it in 1999, not long after I started <\/p>\n

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