The aggressive and conflicting messages of these tags - “arsen,” “pasteur,” “peace” - communicate the troubled identity of the taggers responsible for them. The layering and cramming of them is a testament to the struggle of each tagger to express himself, and claim this space as an interior space, a space he owns. With the visual device of the advertising “frame” around these messages, I hope to re-present this work as something which should be taken seriously, perhaps not in its individual parts, but certainly in the composite whole that my photograph presents to the viewer.
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