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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
Graffiti (singular: graffito) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti has existed since ancient times.
On my recent trip to Stockholm and Berlin I was further amazed by the level of artistic expression on the streets in the form of street art/ graffiti. In East Berlin in particular, it's everywhere! I live in a city (NYC) where street art is also a strong component of it's visual identity, but I would say that Berlin in particular surpasses even New York in it's volume of random art found largely in it's back streets.
For myself as a Stylist, this form of expression delights me! In my world, you might pay thousands of dollars for a graffiti inspired artwork to be mounted in an interior scheme, but here its readily available on the street for all to enjoy only most people don't to even seem to notice it? Of course in Berlin celebrated artists on the Berlin wall, or what is left of it can find a large number of works! Perhaps in a way the rest is an extension of this?
There is just something so fresh and spontaneous about art that you know when you walk past a week later might be gone or added too, or changed out all together!
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