Artist Statement
In today’s urban world, many are taking to their own devices in attempt to express their artistic unrest. Webster’s Dictionary defines graffiti as “unauthorized writing or drawing on a public surface”. To the general public, graffiti is most commonly considered to be vandalism, or defacement of public property without consent. Yet to many, including myself, graffiti can take on an entirely different aesthetic.
Graffiti, in its very essence, is meant to captivate the public’s attention. Artists most often use “tags”, modern day pseudonyms, to proclaim their marking of a public surface. It is not these minor and overabundant scribblings that caught my attention, but those unique, vibrant and original works accompanied by an artist’s signature. The works presented in this series were selected not only for the purpose of representing the vast spectrum of graffiti, but in an attempt to declare the artistic value of these urban works.
As said before, graffiti is seldom heralded for its purposes other than to simply deface and claim a piece of property. In this modern day and age, art is no longer confined to a canvas or paper. It is my intent with this series to capture the artistic value of these works in a way in which the general public might actually appreciate them. By presenting these images in a composed manner, focusing both on the actual macro setting and the intimate space inhabited by the graffiti, it is my intention to define the artistic merit of the graffiti sect of contemporary art in our modern everyday world.
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