Woden

Time Line

For my Graffiti assignment i have already stated that i will need to plan n search where to go.

It is week 8 now and I'm still sketching out places to see.

So for the first half of week 8 I'm going to wonder all round Woden/ drains/ alleys/ bus stations etc.

Im heading to adelaide for weeks 8-9 to visit my family. This is the perfect time to see adelaides amazing street art.

Weeks 10 - 11 ill see o'connor and lynham

Weeks 12 - 13 will be civic and belconnon

I won't to try go to sydney but i don't know if that will be a certain movement yet so.. ill keep you posted.

weeks 14 ill check out kaleen.

For week 15 ill see if i spotted any other places and ill keep regularly posting my finding. But other than that i will be editing, selecting and sorting for my exhibition in weeks 16 :)

Location Research 'Canberra'

Over the past week i have been asking people for places they have seen vandalism is Canberra. So far i have a list of places to visit in this city; they are as follows

- Under Kaleen bridge
- Back of Belconnon near the car yards
- Storm water drains in Woden
- O'connor drains
- Civic centre
- Behind Lynham netball courts.

Im hoping to visit these places by the beginning of next week, once i borrow a speed light for my camera, I'm on my way.

One the 31st of March i will be heading over to Adelaide. I have a few areas i want to visit, but ill gather more information before my next post.

Hopefully have some images up soon :)

Graffiti Intro

This semester i have decided to do a negotiated study on urban vandalism. I will be documenting my findings and regularly posting it on my blog.

I was hoping to find illegal graffiti, to study the culture and the anonymous cries for attention. The colourful twisted walls of art really interest me. It seems to be a pattern that graffiti artist work in places hidden from traffic, but in areas they will be seen by foot traffic. I was hoping to travel to other major cities such as Sydney and Adelaide to see the different scale of street art. Id say it would be a lot more easier to find the 'hidden' graffiti in those major cities with a much more higher poverty ratio. It seems to me that you find vandalism in abandon buildings, train stations and storm water drain pipes. The individuals that vandalise aren't law abiding citizens (of course) most of them id say are homeless, with a lot of time to themselves to think about their lives and decisions they have taken, hence the need to 'ask'/ 'show' their emotions in vast scales of colour and size.