Brief Analog Messages on Walls Ape Our Digit-driven Discourse
Whether satire, slogan, or soliloquy, the anonymous street scribe shapes our experience while we walk through the city.
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Boffo or blustery, a piece of poetry can sling or sting your unsuspecting heart as you round the corner or look above your head and a rallying cry will bring color to your cheeks or dread into your head. A well-crafted counterpoint can clearly confound and a cleverly flipped script will turn up your lips, but no-one can crack some cryptic confessionals or meandering non sequitors that pop and squirm under your quizzical gaze.
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Whether cute or contentious, the hand-rendered words that we daily see on walls throughout the city are all speaking to us in a cooly comforting lo-fi handwritten way across the bricks and mortar, but somehow they often obey a 140 character limit too. Mercifully brief, as if targeted to our hurried pace and tightly tailored for the twitter-brained among us, these textual communications are looking for a more general audience, but an audience nonetheless.
And here we are.
Today we look at a kaleidoscopic collection caught by photographer Jaime Rojo, cobbled together here for you.
Rambo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rambo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Love Me (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
3tt Man (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
B.D. White & Jilly Ballistic (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Banksy (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Banksy (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bagman (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pesk ACK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gilf! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Enzo & Nio (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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