This is based on real street art from my college days. This hand-painted splatterart silhouette would appear on brick walls in vacant lots in in the Gramercy neighborhood. Gave you shivers every time it fooled you. I never had any real love for tagging, but this was something different—subversive, creative...even malevolent. I would swear Alan Moore used it in as a motif in 'Watchmen' (Hiroshima shadows burned into buildings) and I think Roberta Bayley has one painted on her apartment wall as seen in the IFC 'Punk' documentary. Anyhow, I liked it. If all graffiti could b this creative...
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