My Graffiti

I talked earlier about the graffiti street in Kirchheim, where I am staying. I've since learned that it can be referred to as Messplatz and it is a legal wall, meaning it is acceptable for graffiti writers, as they are called, to tag there. Graffiti has always interested me; I don't just appreciated it and photograph it, I have wanted to write it for sometime. Enter yesterday, when I went to the street for the second time in a week to once again document the ever-changing walls and talked to someone about the rules regarding spray-painting in the area. During class this morning, I couldn't get the idea out of my head, so after school let out, I headed to the local department store and bought a few spray cans and a small bucket of yellow to wash over an old mess of practice tags. This was the result.



I later went back after designing another tag, and this happened.



I think I'll take on the name "Buró", short for "la Tiburón," a feminization of the Spanish word for shark. It's easy to write, aesthetically pleasing, and, I think, represents me well.

Here's some other tags that have appeared since my last post (not to say there weren't amazing murals painted and covered over since then): Slideshow.

I'll post on Amsterdam later this week, as I'm still getting got up on organizing and studying, and I think I'm staying in Heidelberg this weekend.