Buff #3 - Limited Edition of 1 Collage

Ink jet print & collage on Ingres printmaking paper. One of a series of photographs of “buffs” (graffiti coverups). I live in a neighborhood with a lot of graffiti and, consequently, buffs, and what draws me to them is not just that they look like abstract paintings. It’s that someone preferred a shapeless blob to a graffiti “piece,” regardless of the quality of that piece. This series looks at them not aesthetically, but as a method of stifling communication and expression, as a conflict between those who own property and those who presumably do not, of style vs. aggressive neutrality.