The purest form of graffiti is just writing your name

Value versus vandalism
Street graffiti, tags, throw-ups, or bombing as the graffiti writers themselves call it. What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Is graffiti mere scribbling, writing or is it a work of art? Is the person who placed it a perpetrator or an artist? All we know is that the work was placed there without prior notice, without permission. Nobody was paid for it. Is it therefore worthless, or is there a greater artistic value to it? This thought-provoking juxtaposition will be explored within this project.

Graffiti research
Glazed Graffiti explores the aesthetic value of vandalism. A post-graffiti research project by SunkOne (Yuri van Poppel, 1975) aiming to eternize graffiti-writing by trespassing into a new artistic medium: ceramics and ceramic glazes. He teamed up with Cor Unum, a Dutch ceramic art centre founded in 1953. They build upon a long history of producing ceramics designed by leading international designers, architects and visual artists.