Boarding and shuttering
Surface objects which encase and display; protect the spaces behind them, and enable the publics before them. Each shutter is a screen, each surface is an interface.
Tag calligraphy
Calligraphic skills much better than deciphering skills but here goes…
Okaes
Sowey
Verz
Nong
Ozee
Drool
What a great wall and such different styles!
Melbourne 2023
Lost pet posters
The semiotics of lost pets posters is a study in itself.
Temporary, unauthorised, paper-based, call-to-action poster taped to a mail box.
Bright lights, public city
Photo of Ghanaian journalist Mike Eghan taken in 1967 by James Barnon, a Ghanaian photographer who has been documenting African diaspora life in Britain for decades. This picture is titled “Mike Eghan at Piccadilly Circus“ and it exudes…
Nicosia buffer zone
Surface semiotic fragments from the buffer zone in Nicosia, a stretch of land of varying breadths that separates the North side of Cyprus (ie the Turkish, occupied side) from the South, Greek side. The buffer zone (or green line) has been under UN control since the Turkish invasion in 1974…
Surface jurisdictions
A moment of claimed stability, where the paint on the wall mirrors its legal ownership, giving visible form to a contractual privilege.
// image from my upcoming book, Urban surfaces, graffiti, and the right to the city //
Hundertwasserhaus exterior walls
Some of the outdoor walls of the Hundertwasserhaus, designed in the early 1980s under the direction of Austria's iconic architectural tourist brand person, Friedensreich Hundertwasser…
My hopes for this community are…
- open walls
- textured surface occupations
- spatial justice through surface writing
- refusal of visual harmony
- surfaces as living archives
Poster symbiosis
Extinction Rebellion and Marxism Conference posters: where does one begin and the other one end? 🧐🤔
Weaponisation of public space
"SURFACE GUARD BARRIERS
Our surface guard barriers are fully modular high-security solutions designed for temporary installation. Surface guard barriers are pedestrian and bicycle permeable, allowing visitors to enter a site without feeling a “fortress mentality”…