Is that your tag?
Posted on July 23, 2002 @ 14:09 in General
I arrived this morning at the subway station (which isn't even underground where I live) to find that a couple of people had spend the night spraying their tags on just about every imaginable flat surface. Not even proper graffiti (heh, like I even know what that might be...), just a lot of tags. If they'd been defacing a website, they would have positively 0wned the place. This sometimes happens and usually it gets cleaned after a while.
This however was the first time I saw a couple of official municipality guys examining the tags. They were taking pictures of the tags with a digital camera, making notes, measuring the tags with a tape measure, in short, doing a proper inventary of everything that had been spraypainted on last night. I think that's really interesting and I wonder what these guys learn or know about the spraypainter's subculture. Are these guys almost ethnologists, mapping individuals within that culture, learning their ways and habits (almost like a police profiler I imagine), or are they simply cataloguing, hoping to someday catch someone redhanded while putting their tag on a wall.
"I'm sorry, is that your tag? Yes? Ah, well we have a nice catalogue of your work here that's going to fetch a nice price. The smallest example, this 10 by 10 piece, is going for a removal fee of 400 euro, while this big 80 by 80 one is a cool 3200 euro."
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