Tuesday, 21 February 2017

A Walk Through Vienna

In daylight I am given the chance to really take in the graffiti. There are places where the graffiti is so expertly done it becomes it's own art form, you can see the effort that went into each piece, it's different from the trashy forms of graffiti I am accustomed to in my own town. However, there are pieces of graffiti that seem less like art forms in Vienna but the words written instead provoke deep thought.


Some are simpler such as the giant words of "I miss you" sprayed messily onto a building wall. Who do they miss? The size of the words makes it eye-catching and I cannot help but wonder for most of the walk who wrote it, who they missed.
"Be free" sprayed small on another walk contrasts the huge letters of "I miss you" but still gets me thinking. Be free of what? I feel a sort of happiness on seeing the graffiti, positive ideas of freedom run through my mind for now.
One particular piece of graffiti is impossible to ignore. It sits on every building sprayed in all sorts of sizes and places with an accompaniment of all sorts of slogans. The word "antifa 1·" is on every building. I notice it everywhere and begin to wonder what it means until eventually I see it accompanied by symbols and slogans of anarchy. Upon a quick google search of the term I find that the word 'antifa' holds anarchist values.



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