Are you okay with someone just crapping all over your home?” asked Ursula. A spokeswoman for the Department of Transportation said graffiti has been an ongoing issue that’s dangerous for those who are engaged in the crime, and it’s also a distraction for drivers. In just the past four weekends, crews have used 200 gallons of paint to cover graffiti along the freeway. What you might not realize is that they’re also taking big steps to beautify downtown Seattle.Ĭrews are cleaning up the graffiti that is scrawled on just about every surface next to I-5. This weekend, Revive I-5 crews are going to continue their work, replacing expansion joints on the freeway. Basically, everyone’s trying to go from the same pool, because you’re trying to get people who are already trained.” Is something finally being done about the graffiti along I-5 in Seattle? “And he has to because if you look at other lateral hires, Tacoma PD has a $25,000 incentive for lateral police hires. Well, he’s showing now that incentives are going to be a big part of it,” Ursula said. And I remember when we talked to the mayor, he was like, it’s not all about the incentives. That’s more than initially was talked about. She stated we can’t keep asking police officers to direct traffic and help people in mental health crises when we don’t have enough officers to investigate sexual assaults or respond to 911 calls. By mixing visual elements and color, Douglas creates images that lie between art, sculpture and still life.Councilwoman Lisa Herbold believes the city should create alternative programs to move some responsibilities away from sworn officers.
A 2013 graduate of Ecal, he combines his photography practice with plastic reflection.
GRAFFITI M SERIES
Its title pays homage to Stieglitz's famous "Equivalents" series of vertically shot images of pieces of sky and clouds, known as the first series of abstract photographs.ĭouglas Mandry is a young Swiss photographer. The original images merge with those transformed and sketch a sequence claiming non-narration. By playing with the layers of color in the print, the artist creates a new machine-generated representation, a mechanical intervention this time. Rather than reproducing these images, the book is a pretext for another interpretation. These compositions then being rephotographed. For the Unseen Sights series that makes up the book Equivalences, the Swiss photographer was inspired by early 20ᵉ century Middle Eastern postcards, and colored large format black and white prints of landscapes in Cappadocia, Turkey, using acrylic and airbrush. Still using analog processes, his interventions on the image are done by hand, either by applying different historical photographic processes, or by physically cutting and pasting them.
Far from the official artistic circles and institutions, these photographers have managed to weave an independent network of production, exhibition and dissemination based on solidarity.ĭouglas Mandry explores the photographic medium in the age of digitization and the technological acceleration that follows. Since then, their photography has continued to evolve through a practice whose main characteristics are collaboration and exchange.
The result of four years of shooting and a long collaboration with graphic designer David Mozzeta.Īntonio Xoubanova is a member of Blank Paper, a collective of photographers who established themselves in Madrid in the early 2000s to develop and promote their work and create a common intellectual space. The result is an object that can be described as baroque. He insists on the multiplication and the redundancy of an essential self-affirmation, in a falsely chaotic sequence and a book form that, echoing graffiti, frees itself from the rules (no cover, apparent binding, destructured layout). The latter dissects this means of re-articulating the urban landscape, of gaining attention to the competition of advertising and signage. It is the act of marking the city with one’s name, of repeating one’s tag on a territory, of affirming one’s existence that interests Antonio Xoubanova. The book Graffiti, although it refers to the urban art movement that appeared in the 1970s in New York, explores above all our relationship to the city.
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