Observe your City's Graffiti
Course: Basic Project; Language 2021-2
This project seeks to communicate the concept COEXISTENCE OF IMPOSSIBLE SPACES that arises from my observation of Bogotá's graffiti through 5 different means: a moodboard, a typography, an illustration, a self-made chair and a photograph.
Investigation
*this video is in spanish
This video explains my perspective when I walked, observed and photographed Bogotá's graffiti. Four things caught my eye from this type of art.
1) it allows the coexistence of impossible spaces
2) its violent nature due to its imposition to the spectator
3) its hardship
4) its ephemeral and fragile nature
From here on, I chose my first observation and tried to explain that concept.
Moodboard
Graffiti shapes and colors forbidden unions. Somethings that shouldn't be together.
Typography
The unions created by graffiti are extremely fragile. They can break, erase, fall down, be undone; get destroyed at any moment.
Illustration
Personally, the one I liked the most.
In the same physical space, man forcefully imposes a tie between impossible spaces. In this process , however, man creates something new, full of life and color.
Self-made Chair
The chair, just like graffiti, invites people to come together. It can be used to mix multiple body actions simultaneously (like sitting and reclining). The chair is made from recycled cardboard with fragile unions that although they support a human interaction, they don't do it for a long time.
Photograph
The intertwined fingers with a masking tape show how easy it is to break free and that it belongs to a vast physical space. The two people sharing a shirt show that they are almost obliged to be together, that a fine cloth encapsulates both of them and that they are not in that situation because of nature or because of their own decision, but because someone (that nobody knows) imposed it that way. The shoes show a rupture of what was uniform, that although they are trying to break free, a fine shoelace binds them together.
