Jerrome Brown

Addiction to public space

Graffiti writers act as visual intermediaries between the public and the use and control of public space. The passion is driven off of a constant need to reclaim public space, which many do not realise. This is very important to me especially today where public space and control of the public is a growing problem, with regards to the implication of advertisement boards, oyster passes, mass CCTV, and the recent talk of I.D passes. Also graffiti writers are not portrayed in a positive way which I a negative education that conditions the public into thinking a certain way, another form of control. However threw this passion comes an addiction. This is an addiction to getting your name/statement everywhere. This encompasses the smell of different inks, making your own ink, the first whiff of the paint fumes after 7 seconds of pressing the cap down.

I want to communicate this addiction through a series of wall charts exaggerating the progressive use of pens, possible scratch and sniff charts of inks and recipes of making your own ink, and diagram/map exemplifying where you would aim to write your name.

Throughout this project I also want to communicate that graffiti is for everyone, for the sake of the public. Hence why I want to explore into scratch and sniff posters to engage with the audience.