Images: Displayed symptoms of the city's plague

Two sites chronicling the artists that take it upon themselves to add to the already polluted ideaspace of our great civilizations.

First, Stencil Archive, which allows for more personal control of the outputted image/text: here silhouettes and tags become little pieces of mixed media beside advertisements and show posters.

(image by crack punk from the .au)

Second, street memes, a site that focuses on stencils as well but also features stickers and posters that try even more to become the media that they combat. Here is a covert example, mixed in with Ipod ads on a nondescript brick wall:

(photographed by bootsy in NY)

Both sites focus on the images produced by people who, like graffiti artists before them, have a compulsion to add their effort to the assault of images we face past our front doors. Somehow this is closer to the point; mass producing a visual/linguistic epithet (like a tag but even more efficient). It at least suggests that audiences have the power to insinuate themself into the show. There is a stencil revolution that may be reactionary now, but is moving indiscernably towards a point; the end of time for some, the beginning of life for others, and the destruction of all walls now definitive.