What happens when someone tags your place?
We saw this cute tiger, complete with naiively written caption this morning. It was on William Street, Kings Cross, up towards the corner of Kirketon Road.
On one of those green electrical boxes nearby, we noticed another strike from the same artist. Another tiger, with a speech bubble that said “PONYO”.
Looking at the tag – a reference to the Miyazaki film, I guess – I realised it was the same graffitiist that had tagged my freshly painted apartment building overnight.
All of a sudden, I was looking at these lopsided letters and thinking ‘illliterate’ instead of ‘naiive’, you know what I mean? From graff-lover to Leo Schofield in a second. But what else do you do?
Well . . . couple of months ago I had to paint over “xponycuntzx” on my fence . . . mainly because the little ones are learning to read and ask questions . . . .
seb
21 Sep 09 at 8:47 pm
I walked down William Street yesterday afternoon, and the graf had already been removed from the electrics box. Sadly our apartment building did not get the same swift council treatment.
polly
22 Sep 09 at 9:15 pm