Stone Gardens We once built wonderous gardens with the dead, where one could walk among the living and talk to the stones. It's interesting how much our views on, and interaction with these places, have changed in the last 150 years. Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…

0.01 % of 8 Billion is 800,000 I always find our perception of scale falters when we get in to these numbers. Trying to reconcile that number with the fullness of even one life, its like trying to hold 10,000 years in your mind. Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…

Fish on a Lamppost and the loss of public art. Yeah that will be one of the more out their titles ill ever write, but don't worry you didn't just lose braincells, it does say what you think, and that does indeed imply that fish covered lampposts will teach us. Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…

Earthenware memes - Staffordshire ceramics Something fascinating was captured when the market for ceramics in 19th century England shifted. Now im aware that “fascinating” and “19thC English ceramic market” aren’t 2 things many would place together, but... Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…

Earthenware memes - Staffordshire ceramics

Something fascinating was captured when the market for ceramics in 19th century England saw a shift. Now im aware that “fascinating” and “the 19thC English ceramic market” aren’t two things many would...

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Brass flowers Entrenched by others greed & fear, we carve our humanity in to shell casings, ironic reminder of their canvases antithesis. Brass flowers in the mud. Trench art is perhaps the most poignant medium of art we have... Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…

Another's tongue on your meal. That is how id best surmise a lot of online discourse. Comment sections seem to have moved on from the long lost age of "first" through to a thousand open mic nights, on now to wading through ten thousand more contrarians... Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…

Under Pressure It is the September of 1940, France has fallen, the people caught by bombs, blitzkrieg, and broken leadership. The mailed fist of fascism tightens. Those who work in cultural/national institutions find out they are to be replaced... Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…

Peripheral failings. It's safe to say we've all seen at least one video online in which a situation unfolds dramatically & suddenly. I think its also fair to say that we've all seen comments on such videos to the affect of "how did they not see that coming" Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…

Caught in the rain

On to the next, you haven't finished the last. An incessant rush, feckless & headlong. You "looked" before you leapt, but what you looked at was the promise of what's next, not the gap in front of you. Now the fall has started, is it too late to catch ourselves.. Read more: romangraffiti.blog/post…

Torn a sonder Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor' A descriptive title for a painting, its neutrality matched to its subject. It is in that neutrality we find the openness to apply ourselves outside of ego... Read more at: romangraffiti.blog/post…

A Real-Time Social System. That is, in-part, the title of an artwork created by Hans Haacke Utilising maps, photographs of buildings, documentation both of the properties and myriad intermediary shell corporations that owned them... Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/a-real-...

You don’t need permission - Guerrilla Art Whilst I know the obvious thing to write about here is graffiti, this goes beyond that, beyond mediums. From the performance art of protest and its painted placards, through intermingled poetry with political outcry... Read more at: tinyurl.com/fr5xctbb

I loved capturing this moment. Taken whilst in Paris on a work trip, the sun had not been out for days. Yet at golden hour on the last day, it came through. I went out, and there across the road was this woman. Amongst all the hectic beautiful movement that is Paris… stopped in a moment of bliss

The Dead Can't Take Selfies - Why art must stand up for itself. The online space is particularly fixated on this idea that an artworks value should be inexorably linked to that artists social network... Read more at: tinyurl.com/n6a2wh3f

Do you see the people paint? Painting the face of angry men. It is the morning of the 14th of July 1789, A thousand civilians stand before the imposing cold stone walls of a medieval fortress known as the 'Bastille'... Read more at : www.romangraffiti.blog/post/do-you-...

What can you do? It's 1830, acclaimed French painter Delacroix writes to his brother; "My bad mood is vanishing thanks to hard work. I've embarked on a modern subject—a barricade. And if I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her". Read more: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/what-ca...

From the Third of May to the Third of January It is the start of the 19th century, throughout Spain (and the rest of Europe) the reigning Spanish Sovereign, Charles IV, is regarded as an ineffectual cuck in all aspects of his life. Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/from-th...

I miss when I could hear what my friends had to say online, when their words weren't drowned out by facsimiles of their own voice thrown by profits algorithmic ventriloquists.

An unprofitable truth. Art does not need to be owned to be experienced. Its fullness can be drunk in without a share in a company, or purchase price paid. All it requires is you to be there with it. Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/an-unpr...

Flawed and Forced Perspectives. No post production VFX or AI models are needed to fool us, and despite all our self assured statements about how "we can always tell what's real" our egos cannot alter the path of light to our eyes. Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/flawed-...

You aren't seeing the bigger picture A narrow rectangle makes up our window, 3 inches wide and 6 inches tall. Rather than look to all that could be outside this slight frame, we have compressed our worlds to fit inside it... a reduced approximation Read more: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/you-are...

You're surrounded by manipulative, amoral, "cant's" know how I know? Because you're on social media, and in 2025 it is nigh on impossible to partake in this particular online landscape without being surrounded by an abundance of these people... Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/you-re-...

Cultural cannibals - The intersection of nostalgia and propaganda. We are desperately clawing at today, trying to tear its face off, just to get a look at yesterdays smile. Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/cultura...

You're doing maths, not curating art I took a look over some of our "leading Light" accounts in the crypto art space. I scrolled back a few weeks, a month or 2 maybe, on each of them, and you know what I saw? Not a single post talking about art... Read more: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/you-re-...

Thieves of Eyes & Legs It is no longer enough to have ones finger on the pulse, now you need to have that blood under a microscope, checking each cell everyday and posting your findings quickly before it oxidises and the content impact is lost. Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/thieves...

Mistimed Magic - Technical mastery cant fix poor thinking. We've all seen this, a stunningly rendered movie monster fills the screen, that shot cuts to the next where the actor stumbles back.... and the cables on which you suspended you disbelief snap.... www.romangraffiti.blog/post/mistime...

Standing ovations for simple jokes - How outsized praise distorts outside perception. We see this with regularity in the art world, some piece is held up, elevated by the oligarchs or institutions, and we all scratch our heads wondering why? Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/standin...

The collective is greater than the corporation - Artists against the machine A group of titans stands atop us, demanding ever more of our space, and that we pay a subscription for the privilege of what little we have left... Read more at : www.romangraffiti.blog/post/the-col...

Swarm Tactics- Focusing collectives to amplify messages. You feel stuck, helpless. They’ve flooded the feed with noise, so genuine cries can hardly be heard. The news cycle a deranged treadmill chewing our legs off... Read more at: www.romangraffiti.blog/post/swarm-t...