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turquoise roller over left, highlighted with bronze, right dark with white splashes & white ink
Cb + bqr, white gold
acrylic, collage, pen, roller, on wood
16" x 20"
2014

I have been looking at graffit'di walls and am very interested in the way a tagger and a buffer (the person who comes along to paint over the tag) relate to each other. There is, sometimes, a kind of dialogue between them. So I am taking pages from my journals of the last two years and pasting them to my prepared "walls" -- the painted and "graffiti'd" canvas-- and then sanding on rolling over them, the way someone might do who owns the wall. Sometimes I leave a message up; sometimes it is partly or fully obscured. These letters are from a blown-up and painted-over journal page, an experiment for me in image and lettering...