TOAST METALBOARDS / STEEL GLASBLASTED / 100 x 100 x 5 cm / 2007 ©

METALBOARDS
The metalboards series wants to create a connection to graffiti culture by emphasizing the observer‘s point of view,
which also plays a crucial role in the act of graffiti writing. The images vary in intensity and become alive once the
observer starts to move. The arrangement wants to reflect the atmosphere of painting graffiti on trains at night. Everything
is peaceful and quiet. The scene lies in the dark, only the occasional lamp post is somehow reflected in the
steel panels of the train. The graffiti writer has to refrain from using any artificial sources of light to operate in the
dark without getting noticed. As the painting in progress can hardly be seen, the act of painting becomes intuitive.
The only clues are provided by glossy patches of wet paint against matt, dry areas. Only by stepping a few steps back,
the graffiti writer has the necessary distance to see the result of his creative act. That is also how the metalboards
series works.