It’s a great concept: a radio document of one college bathroom’s graffiti, and it is pulled off with charm, humor, fine production value, and a lack of pretension. It manages to be both anthropological and thoroughly entertaining. The level of confiding and poetry on these walls is sort of incredible. (Boy’s bathroom graffiti is just filthy in comparison…. I think the biggest difference between men and women, it would seem judging by this piece, is their graffiti.) It’s good enough to make you think a whole series should be done on graffiti all over the place-- shopping malls, prisons, high schools, construction sights, office buildings. This was like a well done experimental short film—one that, through its art, allows you to see something common place in a whole new way—a way that allows its inherent beauty to be seen. This could fit in anywhere. It’s a treat.
Review of The Walls
Jonathan Goldstein
Posted on November 27, 2004 at 11:50 AM
It’s a great concept: a radio document of one college bathroom’s graffiti, and it is pulled off with charm, humor, fine production value, and a lack of pretension. It manages to be both anthropological and thoroughly entertaining. The level of confiding and poetry on these walls is sort of incredible. (Boy’s bathroom graffiti is just filthy in comparison…. I think the biggest difference between men and women, it would seem judging by this piece, is their graffiti.) It’s good enough to make you think a whole series should be done on graffiti all over the place-- shopping malls, prisons, high schools, construction sights, office buildings. This was like a well done experimental short film—one that, through its art, allows you to see something common place in a whole new way—a way that allows its inherent beauty to be seen. This could fit in anywhere. It’s a treat.