[Wildstyle graffiti piece: Ink]

DMM-2022-00243

[Wildstyle graffiti piece: Ink]

Ink

Created: 2013
Photographed: 2023-10-01

AAT:
Wildstyle
graffiti art
pieces (graffiti art)

LCSH:
Graffiti--Michigan--Detroit--21st Century.

The creator's tag: INK is developed using many interlocking diagonal and upright forms. These forms weave together to create a solid, structural effect. The interior of the letter-forms are painted blue. The outmost forms are painted using a deep royal blue and the paint is blended to a lighter shade of sky blue at the center of the tag. Cloud-like forms decorate the tops of the central letter-forms. Shadows painted in a deep red and black fall below the letter-forms and to their right on the left side of the tag, and on the left on the right side of the tag. This coupled with the diagonal shapes and lighter central colors used in the tag create the appearance of the tag's center bulging toward the viewer. The tag's contours are outlined in a crisp black line. Several forms have black lines running parallel to their main edges. Outside of the black contour are lines which mirror the contour done in light orange and bright reddish-orange. In several spots to the left, top and right of the tag are attenuated lines, rectangles and dots painted using the same bright reddish-orange shade. These lines and shapes recall a futuristic cityscape. The entire tag sits on a background painted a solid acid green color. In the upper left of the tag, inscribed in white with a black outline "CF" flanked by a dot on each side. Several obscured artists' names are inscribed in black at the bottom left.

Still Image

Address: viaducts at the intersection of Rosa Parks & W. Lafayette Blvds., Detroit, MI 48216
Coordinates: 42.323604, -83.067126

The Yard: Graffiti Museum

Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. (n.d.). The Yard Graffiti Museum. Detroit, MI; Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. https://detroitriverfront.org/sites/default/files/images/SW-Graffiti-Museum-booklet-8.5x11.pdf (Accessed October 23, 2023)

Detroit Greenways Coalition. (2023, July 8). Southwest Greenway. Detroit Greenways Coalition. https://detroitgreenways.org/projects/southwest-greenway/ (Accessed October 23, 2023)

spray paint on concrete