Graffiti

B-Side Bathroom
Astoria, OR
Inside Ho Thuy Tien
California/Oregon Border
Oscar Wilde’s Grave, Pere Lachaise Cemetary, Paris
When you were born, your mother gave you milk, not drugs.
Edinburgh Bus Stop
B-Side Bathroom
Ash Street Saloon Bathroom
Inside Ho Thuy Tien
Jim Morrison’s Grave, Pere Lachaise Cemetary, Paris
Winco
Satyricon Bathroom
St Johns
Alora Saga 4, St. Johns, Portland
Athens, Greece
Argentina
Inside Ho Thuy Tien
Where the devil can’t go, he sends a woman.
Argentina
Fuck Off Crows
Berkeley
Aalto Lounge bathroom
Amsterdam
Parros, Greece
Edinburgh, Scotland
Don’t feel alone in the infinite worlds, Perito Moreno, Argentina
San Francisco
Ash Street Saloon Bathroom
Argentina
Cape Disappointment, WA
Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina

For years, I’ve been fascinated and amused by the art and wit to be found in graffiti, particularly on bathroom walls. It is baldly the issues that historically humans have grappled with everywhere for all time: love, hate, politics, identity. It is the most democratic of art forms and means of proclaiming, “I am”. At it’s best, however scatological or earthy the language, it is dressed with an artistry that will never be celebrated in any gallery. Perhaps this is a mistake.