GRAFFITI

Walking around city streets we are bombarded by promotional broadsides touting performances, political rallies, social gatherings and advertisements of the ideal lifestyle that waits for us, if only we will buy this or that product. Come back tomorrow, and what we see can be completely different. Posters get slapped up on walls surrounding temporary construction sites, mailboxes, and doorways. The rain and time shred them, graffiti artists paint over them, and newly minted ephemera go up directly on top of them.

With my camera viewfinder, I select and isolate discrete pieces that call me to attention because of the random, abstract way these myriad layers have come together to tell me something about this city and its cultural values, at this particular moment in time. For tomorrow is indeed another day, and what was here will be changed or gone altogether, decomposed by time, weather and circumstance.”