Previously, graffiti’s connotations were always negative — the unwanted texts in inappropriate places: obscenities in public bathrooms, dirty little words claiming to reveal something and shamelessly posing as audacious, or simply as a desire to disfigure a wall. Then suddenly an art was born, an art of sublimated solitude, Graf, selected by random mutation of […]
Graffiti (a text of Philippe Delerm translated by Vadim Bystritski) — Before and After Francis Ponge
Naked Cities Journal 