Is it art or crime? Creation or destruction? What compels people to write and draw on things they shouldn’t? What kind of marks are created in the margins and what power do they hold?
This short essay explores the contradictions of graphic expressions one might find in the hidden spaces of pages and cities and what these scrawled messages, rearranged shapes, letters and glyphs reveal about the margins of western society. It’s about deviant mark making and why the margins are places of play, mischief, and subversion
Wild Scrawls - Marks in the Margins and the Power of the Unexpected by Rosie Hearne
1st Edition Copyrite 2022.
