Style, Placement & Proliferation is an ongoing photo essay on the world of street art. The images, however, document more than the two-dimensional image on surface, but rather the contextual story behind each piece. Each graffiti work of art does not exist within a void or curated gallery; instead each piece has embedded itself into the fabric of its environment.
Contemporary graffiti itself is an ongoing endeavor to achieve artistic reputation with writers advancing themselves through the principles of style, placement and proliferation. These strategies determine exposure within the cityscape, and therefore, narrate the phenomenological relationship between guerilla artist, the urban environment and the passerbys who populate it.
Urban art tends to be hastily codified into one genre despite the vast diversity of styles, mediums and subjects. The motives vary from artistic ambition, political commentating or even competitive tribalism. Despite the art form being as diverse as its creators across the globe, many pieces fall into these three devices of style, placement and proliferation as a means to achieve the same agenda: bold commentary within the public domain.