tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post2664421090182889288..comments2023-09-17T18:51:11.693+12:00Comments on Eyelight: Graffiti IRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-87524917699796660402014-06-30T19:47:52.209+12:002014-06-30T19:47:52.209+12:00XYZXYZRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19744635.post-71158605485402743162014-06-10T11:14:56.194+12:002014-06-10T11:14:56.194+12:00This is part one I have hundreds of images of graf...This is part one I have hundreds of images of grafitti and related art. I have manipulated the images in various ways. In this case the original art was not by me. Much of the grafitti here is on the site of my old school Tamaki College (I was there between 1962-65). Other grafitti is at the new building development site Stonex (which I have been photographing since it's beginnings for about 7 years). I have thousand of photographs in various categories. The area is where we walk most days and includes (mainly) Glen Innes, Panmure, (the Panmure basin, Maungarei, The Yacht Club and the Tamaki Estuary). This area includes a lot of historically significant places. I have read 'Maungarei' by Mrs. Holloway (who was a deputy Principal at Tamaki College and did archaeologicl work on Mt. Wellington (Maungarei). Also the book about Mahon, the 'Pakeha-Maori' describes the terrible and fascinating battle at Mokoia (during the so-called 'Musket Wars'). I also have photographs of the extensive bird life, clouds, even cows and magpies on our lunch table at Maungarei. GI (and also sometimes Grey Lynn and other areas) is more or less covered but to include all the photographs would cause the internet to explode! <br /><br />I am not "for or against" graffiti, I see it as a phenomenom, a part of the environment. Ironically I have a book from the Glenn Innes Library about graffiti and I read a book once about Dondy White. <br /><br />It is a good idea to click on the images and study them. There is a stylistic "sameness" about grafitti but like Gilbert and George it is one area of Art (all art interests me even if I don't maybe "like" it), whose anarchistic riot of images and sort of anarchistic scatology fascinates me: although I haven't got around to cataloging chewing gum on pavements: it fascinates me. As does their kind of sophisticated naivety and fascination it seems with things of the "natural" world, and their imagistic "take" on same.<br /><br />More to come. Click on the images.<br /> Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.com