Graffito Metadata
WEBSITE - HTML, CSS, Javascript.
Graffito Metadata is a digital archive that reflects my personal, outsider
experience of observing graffiti in my neighborhood. With no access to the culture’s internal networks,
I encounter these tags without context—unsure of who left them, when, or why. This project is a response
to that uncertainty: an act of speculative storytelling that imagines the people behind the marks.
Graffiti functions as a form of subcultural communication, where walls become informal archives layered
with meaning. These marks are read nonlinearly as they appear, disappear, and overlap. This site
embraces that nonlinear structure, and connects it to the interactions of the digital archive, allowing
users to move freely and draw their own connections.
The graffiti featured here is real, sourced from my surroundings. Though the "metadata" is entirely
fictional. Rather than offering factual insight, Graffito Metadata explores the limits of
interpretation—the inferences and imagined narratives of an outsider taking in the graffiti of their
every day environment.
EXPLORE THE WEBSITE - [not optimized for mobile]
