Vandalise
/ˈvæn.dəl.aɪz/ v [T]
to intentionally damage property belonging to other people
The only loop-hole in that definition is the word "damage". I don't think I'm damaging the property of others, I'm enhancing it in a positive way. So far I only have 2 places I've worked on: a stool in the St. Nicholas' Kirk graveyard.
I really like the idea of writing on things that don't belong where they are. Like a 1960's in the middle of a graveyard in the centre of town. I like the "take that society" just because it is what everyone is trying to say in one way or the other when they do vandalism. The humour in it is that anyone who writes on walls is trying to say "take that society" in the most complex way their artistic spirit can come up with. I decide to revert to the most basic message state and have stick-people comment on my "take that society".
In the area (on the border of Woodside and Tillydrone) where I spray painted quite poorly this first piece of my curatorial exhibit was, in my defence, my first ever spay painted stencil on a wall, at night (and it was very very dark). The challenge with this entire wall, that I intend to apply my spray painted short comics, is to find a quite universally understandable message. I think "why not consider abduction" has a universal social appeal, plus, I feel I'm doing my part to help aliens probe the world. The stick-man and the spray painting medium have something that reminds of stone age art and cave-wall paintings. I am hoping that if found in the future, this mural would be analysed as are cave-men drawings now. I just feel that despite all our technology, the best way to carve something in stone, is to carve it in stone... or spray paint it on a wall.
In the area (on the border of Woodside and Tillydrone) where I spray painted quite poorly this first piece of my curatorial exhibit was, in my defence, my first ever spay painted stencil on a wall, at night (and it was very very dark). The challenge with this entire wall, that I intend to apply my spray painted short comics, is to find a quite universally understandable message. I think "why not consider abduction" has a universal social appeal, plus, I feel I'm doing my part to help aliens probe the world. The stick-man and the spray painting medium have something that reminds of stone age art and cave-wall paintings. I am hoping that if found in the future, this mural would be analysed as are cave-men drawings now. I just feel that despite all our technology, the best way to carve something in stone, is to carve it in stone... or spray paint it on a wall.
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