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FOREWORD >> From
the age of six I had a penchant for copying the form of things,
and from about fifty, my pictures were frequently published; but
until the age of seventy, nothing that I drew was worthy of notice.
At seventy-three years, I was somewhat able to fathom the growth
of plants and trees; and the structure of birds, animals, insects
and fish. Thus when I reached eighty years, I hope to have made
increasing progress, and at ninety to see further into the underlying
principles of things, so that at one hundred years I will have
achieved a divine state in my art, and at one hundred and ten,
every dot and every stroke will be as though alive.
CRITICAL TERMS 4 GRAFFITI STUDY >> Most people will freely use the term "graffiti" to encompass the entire public art form that has emerged globally from the subways of New York City. Initially, subway pioneers such as Phase2 would refer to their craft as "writing" and vehemently reject the word "graffiti," due to the negative connotations of the latter; its Italian root graffiari meaning to scratch or scrawl. Certainly, their desire to put some distance between their work and the previous popular conception of graffiti was appropriate, and probably, if there had emerged a new word for the form other than their choice - "writing" - it may well have stuck. "Writing" simply couldnpt stick, because its meaning is taken by the act of what I am doing at this keyboard, however well the word "writer" has stuck to graffitips practitioners. Calling it spraycan or aerosol art falls short as well, for the simple reason that it isnpt all done with spraypaint, especially nowadays...©2003 Caleb Neelon . More...
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