Graffiti and the art of being present

Graffiti’s impermanence is often seen as a weakness, but I’ve come to see it as its strength. Each mark made in public space acknowledges time’s passing; it asserts life against erasure, while accepting that nothing lasts forever. Like memory, it fades. What remains is the trace, a sign that something happened, that someone was here, that something was said.

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Lucy McDowell