Week Two Walk One

I set out on my walk deciding that the first evidence I saw of any subculture would be the subculture I would focus on and catalog. At the first stop sign I came across I noticed that it had been tagged, so tagging it was. I continued walking for an hour (then turned around) and kept looking for tags. I was amazed at how many there were in my neighbourhood and at how oblivious I had been to their existence. The strangest thing was the lack of tagging on walls, the taggers kept to city property: trash cans, stop signs, other road signs, mail boxes, telegraph poles, side curbs and things like that. Does tagging connote ownership of something? In this case I don't think so because it seems like the taggers use city property as a kind of 'bulletin board', so they can see each others names and know who lives in what neighbourhood.

The most interesting thing for me was the erasure of tags, either through weathering or physically painted over because a lot of the time the paint used to paint over it did not match the original paint.