“Night For Day” [Reflections On Book - 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design Stephen Heller and Veronique Vienne - #90]
“What’s done in secret will be known”,
Christ quipped – now nightly spray-cans roam
The subway yards; back-alley walls
Become the canvas for some cause.For back in seventies the fare
To get uptown was wanting – there
Inventive types got “Name” around
On subway cars – the underground.Now mainstream artists use techniques
Born out of poverty – now tweaked
To echo back to spray-can days –
3-D, and stencils – find it pays.It’s found in galleries around
The world, on trains it cuts through towns;
The daily scrubber-teams than fight
To clean it off, and make things “Right”Right for the rich and middle class,
Not for the poor whose graphic sass
Adorns the public space awhile
(Then graphic artists swipe their style).Well, Lord, I see trains going by
With graphic art in great supply;
A muraled wall escapes, they find –
Fight fire with fire’s what comes to mind.Historic murals give a spin
To history were living in –
A statement which can say your piece –
Historic twistedness released.Thanks Lord for this.
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