tree

this is work i have been doing for ages- it celebrates the dying art of the obscene grafitti. i find modern tagging bit unimaginitive. this is the stuff i like best- free of any talent what so ever, spontaneous, crude and basic. many years ago as a student, whilst looking through a book of leaonardo da vinci's drawings, i caught sight of a set of cock and balls on one of the pages. i think it was done by one of his assistants, but i loved the fact that i could trace back this form of graffitti and give it some credence. so i am now loading up a selection of these photographs- enjoy. this first one is an example of an old way of leaving a mark- scratch it in to a tree. although this is not obscene, it's a good example of the old-school way.