Graffiti City first appropriates the colorful designs donated to the public realm by street artists borrowing buildings.

It then inverts the traditional rejection of such graffiti by landlords city wide by inviting it into a volunteer situation at a scale large enough to abstract the original tag. A re-re-appropriation.

The original Graffiti City

This concept was translated into a taping.
Graffiti City

And headed further downtown to the hip residential building at 50 Murray Street, NY
50 Murray St.
- an edition of silk screened prints on white, silver and gold paper in variable colors with unique tape embellishments

graffiti_city_01 And over to the East River, using Keith Haring's vocabulary across the United Nations building.

Graffiti City Lease Façade
Continuing to the West Village...the text on the left is the almighty Lease, which governs so many of our relationships.

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