I is Muralist MANFHEFJAPKRAZESPADEHOWOKCH3W@HKONKSPIT

Tagger MANFHEFJAPKRAZESPADEHOWOKCH3W@HKONKSPIT with his brushes and paint cans

Officer, get off meh tanti mudder neighbor house who just pack up and gone, Ca-nah-da dis morning. Ah calling meh frend, frend, judge frend. I eh no he name. Wait, meh seconds run out, le meh yours nah, Government paying for it, ah ca talk free all day, month and year til election. Yuh aint notice de meh bite up 1976 Rights Enshrined over de Protection of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms paper print wit lime juice? It rubbing next to meh painting / fete rag.

Oh lawd is only yes-to-day I see meh beau-t-ful red, black and white trow way in front of NP gas station break down. Ah say to meh self, who dem people living in we country leave we forty seven year flag roll up and mash over like dead dog with car tire imprint after feteing in we all purpose stadium Petting it up in de air and dough focking care. It have meh Carlyle sic in he grave wondering if he waste he time designing it. Ah say NO me ain’t want none of dem who frend in Government printry stamping Passport and Birtpaper like giving way free hops bread and cheese.

Only weekend meh woman and I gone to de Hyatt to take in de view of we prestigious Port of Spain International Waterfront. Ah tell she see dat white rust boat out der, dat is we Tobago Pride. Yuh know ah have to spend more on she to get meh quick suck so I decide to go movietown and park in de middle of de Off Shore where meh car safe. I taking she for ice cream to give she a hint. But when I driving, ah find ah seeing all kind of big letter looking all de same. First is MANF den HEF, JAP, KRAZE, SPADE, HOWOK, CH3W@H, KONK and SPIT….and say waye Martians reach and talking too weeee.

Officer I inviting you personally to meh art exhibition just up de road where dem old hoe does eye we both. Ah here yuh does like to pump dem with gas as if you is gas attendant, a dem is gas tank hole. Funny dem Graffiti vagrant showing in one tiny room, is real fight breakout, you wait and jail. Officer, yuh hear de joke when one of dem wake up as see MANFHEFJAPKRAZESPADEHOWOKCH3W@HKONKSPIT zog up all round he wall, well is shit ah still smelling. Oh gooud, if dem coming to de exhibition dey better hide in black matrix shades, is only jackass go show he face. Look, look, one of dem hardbacks coming to tell meh I vandalizing.

Addendum: In light of what Street Grafitti represents to the public Street, artists find themselves wanting to be creative. Art on abandoned locations are the canvas where they can express themselves with an added tag competition.

The end of Graffiti in Trinidad, Hallelujah

The great debate – Clinton Anthony Cummings, Spade and Louse

This stencil sign has been removed

Readers who may be concerned over the implications of graffiti art in Trinidad. The question remains to some. Is graffiti a form of Art, is it a form of social commentary or just an act of vandalism?

A open request to the Graffiti artists tagged as MANF, HEF, JAP, KRAZE, SPADE, HOWOK, CH3W@H, KONK and SPIT. Voice your concerns in a constructive way, explain to the public why this type of Art form is necessary.

Where graffiti artist Clinton Anthony Cummings once slept, would any of the taggers above like to exchange in his place? The end of Graffiti in Trinidad, Hallelujah. The bookman has fallowed this man’s work since 2004. Thank you Anthony for asking the question,”Where have all the thinkers gone?” He should be tagged PRIDE

Boys, boys, boys – The graffiti rivalry continues

Hey Fatima bullers keep off, where dem foreign use?

The artworks from many graffiti artists located at the burnt out Santa Monica grocery lot was white washed by vandals a few years ago. Now there is some sort of revival. The works are cleaner showing some pride for what they do. – Its called vandalism, hello.

More white paint for Christmas, graffiti in Diego Martin

A comment from h….k all city’s bitch on Boys looking for a buss head post

allright…
first of all big up your crew dsu! i am very happy for you all, it will probably give you the title of first crew in trinidad,very good. But dont forget about one thing!! the most important its not the speed its to keep going!!! When a policeman going to knock on your door and put you in jail for 3months.

I am sure to be sure than you not going to see graffiti as a “art who resolve all your problem…cause you know graffiti its a vandalisme wich is a max of 3years and 300000$ ticket… dont you!! Anyway i hope long life to dsu and your graffiti scene of trinidad and tobago…
Regards

Sorry for my bad english I am a lo life from brixton

Remembering Bookmann geocites 2004 – Public Art # 9

Graffiti can be a commentary of a time and place

Along Victoria Avenue, Port of Spain, a wall drawing emphasizes the significance of the “present” Trinidad. It is preliminary a pencil work traced over by a more durable crayon pigment to combat the scorching heat of this tropical paradise. This is a drawing perfectly boxed by whitewashed concrete bricks. Here are memories from an artist in turmoil, and of a country’s fast-pace whose dismissive temperament fails to honor a man’s existence.

Recorded like a stenographer, it tells a tale: “What really going on in dis place” The drawing of the Capital’s financial towers are far from the spot, but the artist’s intention to use the Eric Williams Complex as a tall building characteristic of finance, and an island in pursuit of progress set between the foundations of the society, a colonial dwelling and a church. Between these elements, a pedestrian in fast motion. These inhabitants are the new breeds marching forward to their new vocation, gripping a briefcase in one hand, and moving with no time to waste. They walk without observing

Did she ignore the pastoral peasant clothed in period not of our time.? An aristocrat who finds himself lost from the haste of progress, This man ponders in opposing parallels, ignoring what happening around him, but yet knowing. Glazing towards the past and becoming a present component of a nation in flux.

Sitting on the pavement? This is neither clear nor visible to the eye, The artist uses the lip as a bench. There is a poetic uneasiness with this drawing, it shows a proud portrait of a man displaying lines of hardship and doubt. This man is paralyzed in a motionless state,  not as a physical amputee with his cane and his loyal canine, but by time.

No entry tickets are required here to view this public art. Just set your foot to the streets of New-Town to a vacant wall façade before the developers  move in and whitewash a poignant artwork. – 2004

Wey Boys looking for a buss head back…….

Is beau-t-iful mural we go compete

“The Innocence” painted as a scroll from the left of the painting, the title of this mural, off George Street, Trinidad, West Indies.

What ever it means, French graffiti artists leaving their mark, Diego Martin, Trinidad, West Indies

According the the graffiti community, word surrounding the vandalism over certain graffiti works have been pinpointed to a couple of delinquent school boys armed with a tin of black or white paint. It has became apparent that a turf over the rights of who did what to who and why has spread to a whitewash of graffiti belonging to the taggers, Manf, Spade and Louse.

The graffiti influx that popped up a couple a years on the places all over Trinidad in December, 2008 welcomed a team of professional French graffiti artists who left their mark on galvanize fences, white walls and road underpasses.

The underpass at St. James Trinidad West Indies that pin points a graffiti artist known as Lailes. His work and professionalism has become the centre of discussion in the tagger forum as he centers himself at any available space, primarily galvanize fencing or a vacant lot.

Taggers debate over what constitutes a graffiti artist by its application. This may be the work by the tagger called HEF. His quirky stencil imagery can be found a many places.

A graffiti stencil spray painted on an abandon wall, Diego Martin, Trinidad

Addendum: A comment has clarified somewhat the spree of iconography by an graffiti artist tagged as HOWOK. The artist has spent a couple years between France and Italy and the sub- signature leiles is actually the name of his girl friend. Case closed.

Erasing what I once believed – Trinidad Graffiti

The graffiti artist, Louse, Maraval, Trinidad

The graffiti artists, Louse, spade and others have systematically brought closure to their street art by ironically defacing their own work with white and black cross marks. This is in order to completely eradicate the graffiti out from dilapidated spots around the capital, Port of Spain. Trinidad. The work to which puzzled the public by its array of iconic symbolism pertaining to a pop culture may just hibernate until new ideas can resurface.

Bringing an end to street graffiti, Woodbrook, Trinidad

It has been noted that a young individual has been seen, and is responsible for defacing these works.

A graffitist finds a place

Quirky and bizarre graffiti in Port of Spain, Trinidad

The graffiti artist, Colin Gill has finally found a place which complements his quirky and bizarre work. The black and white graphic icon is painted on a wall which is enclosed to a plot of land that is in the process of some sort of construction. The work has a poetic resonance as the mounts of gravel and land clearing gives the installation a beauty in its panoramic view.

Previously, Gill’s attempt on street art as a form of public expression had failed because his abstract paintings looked gimmicky, and it seemed to compete in territory with other graffiti artists.