Daily Art: Lisa Zukowski – New York

Lisa Zukowski

counting the days

Beneath the Surface

The  bunkers at Fort Worden, in Port Townsend, Washington are a popular place for graffiti, but the Parks Department frequently paints over it with whatever color they have on hand. The result is a wonderful abstraction – a layering of images, words, and blocks of color. I found the walls to be visually exciting, and was intrigued by the concept of hidden messages.  A sense of history and identity lost, the marks of those that had passed through the bunkers had been intentionally obscured, secreted away behind the fresh paint.  In creating these works, I added my own marks to the mix.

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