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graffiti in los angeles brings life to an alienating environment. through words
and pictures, lost captures bits and pieces of what the streets witness. the
gathered material is then sorted and sequenced in such a way as to project a
narrative with this movement as subject. the project started in 1998 as a pho-
tocopied zine. it has evolved into a series of sporadic exhibitions and a more
periodic journal. the current issue, installment eleven, is 164 pages of color
and black and white imagery. it features a retrospective on the seminal under
cover art crew, photography by one of its members, stag one, graffiti writers
cisco and mear engaging in a public space discourse, an exploration of the
contrasts visible between graffiti and the city by eyeone, a look back into l.a.
graffiti history with price one, drawings and paintings by jorger and the
illustration work of patrick martínez, all wrapped in chipboard with a cover
by luna one. with a city like los angeles, graffiti is relentless. 7seconds described
this dedication well: “we will attack in red and black, cover the buildings, the
walls, and the streets, we will attack in red and black, graveyard graffiti in the
fucking city.” time to take a walk down the street.
clockwise starting to our left: cab s.h. yardin’ it, haeler greets your daily commute, on the run,
vyal marks the spot, eyeone fell off a train the day swank painted this, kill to succeed and
second to none initials at the now-defunct belmont tunnel, revok street-level, and modem
in east l.a. peep www.lost.seekingheaven.com for more info.
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