Travelers
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| Sociopath, War Trilogy, Lviv, now partly damaged. Photo via Tarek Alghorani/FREEDOM GRAFFITI WEEK Syria |
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| Tarek Alghorani/FREEDOM GRAFFITI WEEK Syria |
A momentous side to graffiti is its reflection of the geopolitics at play in its day. Subjects travel across boundaries mapping the larger picture as it is. Complete with a grid for easy transfer to surfaces of any size. In this case the motif is traveling from Ukraine to Syria to be sprayed in a neighborhood in Damascus.
Within a span of just two years the very same motif has become central for the happenings in both places, speaking of the very same aspirations for power. The application of Hitler is rather a cliché and yet so very well done here, changing just the eyes and creating for an oscillation between the two persons at play. His name on the other hand has taken the full step and has been changed into the defamatory "two boots, while the colors of the flag of the Syrian regime is formed with the Swastikas for stars.
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| Moscow, 2012 - his left arm added about the time Putin was elected for his third term as president. Photo via Tarek Alghorani/FREEDOM GRAFFITI WEEK Syria |
Another full face portrait is intended for Damascus.
This one first came about in Moscow and this one makes its protagonist get
caught in the act of severing the aspirations of the many voices. An act which
turned into pure manipulation once his left arm was added.
In the newest
version he is cutting out a letter of his own name changing its meaning into an
ass. He is in other words making an ass of himself for everyone to see in a
neighborhood for which there is no strength to be drawn back into open strife.
He will be there, though. He shall have a presence as proof of his factor in
the war.
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| Tarek Alghorani/FREEDOM GRAFFITI WEEK Syria |
