something echos here about the covering over of a message. A tentative embarking, or an anarchy of authority. Some kind of suppression of expression becoming its own form. The drips of the paint, the left over shape of the parameters of the graffiti. I just find these beautiful. And then when the artistic stencil graffiti artists put their images over it as the fish on the bridge, it is so wonderful.
It's also like the aesthetic norm that has infiltrated Madison and so many urban areas that are "planned" that personal expression is dismissed, as if "we" don't have a high enough aesthetic to work independently, or that there is ugliness in the cacophony of myriad physical and visual images. Clutter. But these boxes, with the paint dripping, covering the graffiti, are almost the apogee of the anti-aesthetic! They are done by some city worker, or maybe a volunteer! Who doesn't even bother to paint over it with matching paint, lets it drip all over the place! And in the end, they really don't cover the graffiti, they just append it! I love them so much!
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