Paper Graffiti
More of the barrier to prevent tumbles from the top of the sewage plant buried in Clover Point. At first I thought the graffiti was painted on, but on closer examination of the original image I can see it is paper, adhered to the concrete. I have never seen paper graffiti before.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO100, f5.6, 1/400th, +/- 2.0 E.V., processed in Photomatix.
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I love the paper graffiti, that’s great!
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Hi Karen – it is very transitory and that makes it interesting too. And eco-friendly as it soon dissolves away with the rain and wind. I will likely post some more shots of it during decomposition.
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Paper graffiti looks like more work than standard spray can tagging so perhaps your artists are more industrious than the vandals we see around here. I’m wondering if you have some close ups in a future post.
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Hi Ken. This is my only picture. I did not notice when I took it that this was paper as I did not get too close. I thought it was an elaborate rendering right on the concrete. When processing the image and zoomed in to 100% I could see it was on paper. I hope it is still there, but we have had wind and rain since then, so it might not be.
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Ken, I just went and had a look at it. It has largely peeled off the concrete, and fallen apart (gently). I took some pictures but have not looked at them yet – perhaps they will be suitable for inclusion on the blog.
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Paper graffiti is, as it turns out, a thing. There are books – http://amzn.to/1fq9tYx – and essays – http://bit.ly/1jWYMzw – and places to order supplies – http://bit.ly/1dboefe. So there you have it.
(Now that you’ve got all that time on your hands, you might want to consider giving paper graffiti a try. You could combine it with photography and cross promote both artistic ventures….)
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I seem to have acquired a Research Department of my very own! Thanks Melinda – interesting to see that it is a thing worthy of impenetrable essays by art criticks (ok, I know it’s not spelled that way, but it works better in this context). Thanks for all the links, which also was a good test of the WP filters for too many links, but I found your comment and approved it, as you can see.
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I forgot about the WP filters, because I was so excited about all the fascinating information on paper graffiti. (Although, I have to admit to not actually reading the impenetrable essay. It seemed a little well, impenetrable.)
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I didn’t read more than a few sentences. I used to share a house with someone that subscribed to art magazines – he read the articles, but I could not understand them. All that creative use of a thesaurus to find archaic words and give them modern meanings as part of a secret and snobbish language was too much for my brain.
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If you read a few sentences, I’d imagine that’s more than most people read…..
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Could well be. Very specialised writing, for the very few.
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Interesting, I’ve never heard of paper graffiti before…unless you count the bills posted to lamp posts? 😉
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Hi David – I suppose you could count those, in the same way that old painted signs on brick buildings might be. But they are more about advertising and less about art I think. Not as interesting either.
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There was a paper White Rabbit (or possibly a March Hare) on a stump near the washrooms in Beacon Hill Park for awhile.
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Good morning Jim. I wonder if it is the same artist. I find the idea interesting – it is a temporary art display that must either be taken down after a while, or which turns to mush in the rain and washes away. Probably the latter, and maybe the decomposition is part of the art. I should go back and look again – it was a few weeks ago that I photographed this. See how it is coming along.
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As I remember it the White Rabbit was in a similar style.
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Quite possibly the same person since this is only few hundred metres away.
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