Historic Graffiti

Graffiti. Love it or hate it, it's physical proof that makes the saying 'if these walls could speak' more of a fact than a statement because the walls literally do speak. They speak of the people who, with a little bit of time on their hands, decided to leave their mark while considering who would be looking at their name years into the future.

Or was "Bowie '81" actually carved a week last Tuesday by a bored kid with an off piste compass and a damn good taste in music?

The above example probably was. But unfortunately, as Banksy and his many impostors probably know too well, this fact alone assigns graffiti into the category of interesting but unofficial.

Beneath the vandalism lies a human story about who we are, when we lived and where we visited. From the medieval ornate lettering in a sandstone block at the Tower of London to the name, date and hand print in the freshly laid concrete of a driveway. We want to be remembered and we want to remember.



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