'X' Was here

DYLAN STRICKLAND

FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

"X" Was Here: Silhouettes on Graffiti

“X” was here: A proclamation of existence to the world at large. From hand prints on cave walls to messages scrawled on an overpass, the need to announce ourselves, to stand out, compels us to mark the world, simply to prove that we were.

Iconic architecture becomes the collective cry of the population who surrounds it, the proof of life for a culture.

This essay examines the nature of created structure, by removing the surrounding people to reveal the awkwardness of a signature without an observer