Thursday morning I went to Brooklyn. On on 3rd Street I took this photograph. The hand painted slogan reads: 'NO MORE CORPORATE BULLSHIT!FUK WALL ST. !' Although it seems a little trite writing it out in compute text, the scale of this graffiti is so big that its statement completely dominated the skyline. It was in a trendy part of Brooklyn, but on a derelict site. Without Manhattan sky scrapers to blot out the phrase, it really screamed out. The tone of the work was particularly jarring because the day I visited this part of town happened to be incredibly beautiful 9.11 weather.
2 comments:
Wooah, great graffitti, but are you saying that the current financial meltdown is akin to 911?...it aint.
Both money and Wall Street are abstactions which we may be able to negotiate a way to live without, the violence perpetrated on the city in 911 people who died as a result are real not conceptual.
no I was talking about the weather. There's a new phrase for very beautiful nyc fall days, and it's '9.11 weather', because on that day the weather was typical New York in the Fall weather.
I'm not trying to suggest that conceptual money and real people's lives are in any way interchangeable.
However, the abstract ideas of Wall Street do stand for a moral bankruptcy which both the slogan, and much of the world identify in American capitalist culture.
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