Buff #4 - Limited Edition of 1 Photograph

Ink jet print on beautifully rich 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. The material quality of the paper and the printing method of these attempt to regain some of that lost style.