"Forgive My Sins" / "I Love You" Public Graffiti Wall 2018
This photo-capture of a public graffiti wall in front of a public library - once vibrant, and now, over the course of 2020 and into 2021 lies dormant and largely inaccessible, is one of the most stunning displays of public graffiti I've seen - and, as an artist, advocate, humanitarian... I'm drawn to it for its raw and unedited narrative of the human condition.
Most interesting to me is the overt plea or perhaps demand of forgiveness: "FORGIVE MY SINS" - the sense of anonymous, yet shouting desperation for some innate sense of wrongdoing and pubic regard for it.
Also harkening: the adjacent positioning of "I Love you" above it...
...and the lowercase - almost by-the-way, whispered in parenthesis "(no)" below it.
None but the authors and artists can attest to which utterance came first or last... over top, beneath, coincident...
This was a poetic collage of time and emotion untouched at the time I beheld it by anything but a camera lens.
Perfect in its commentary and study.
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Forgive My Sins - I Love You: Public Graffiti Wall 2018
Photo (C) 2018 by Lisa Bracken - New Flight Books newflightbooks.com