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12/5/08

Moral the Fine Art Tagger


The tagger's got a lot of nerve, splattering "Moral" all over the place.  I've seen the tag on the Williamsburg Bridge and at 4th Ave. & E 10th St. (pictured here), big and sloppy, without a trace of the crispness you'd figure the word would inspire.

But there is some simple (dripping) gravity to the tags, which seem inspired by the painter Pat Steir (Moral closeup below left, Steir example below right).

With their Abstract Expressionist process-painting style, I can imagine the tagger bending the words of Jackson Pollock to say: I am not Nature, I am Moral.


Disclaimer: I have no idea if the tagger's aware their marks mimic the style of Steir.  I am just a switch; when two or more like things show up on my input circuits I transfer them to my output.  The information transferred could be the mumbled secrets of God or gobbledygook produced by a bird jumping on a keyboard; it makes no difference to me, so long as the electrons keep flowing and I stay warm, full, and too busy to care.

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