"Civil Brand" (2005)

"Graffiti is interesting to me because it’s in the public domain but it’s full of secrets and unless you’re part of that system, you can’t unlock those secrets. I can see it for its shapes, its forms, but I don’t understand it. Another person will say, ‘Oh, you can’t read that?’ And he’ll tell me this means this- that means that. It’s all the interconnected secrets and overlays that I really find interesting in public space. I guess I keep talking about that. Why not private space? Because private space is private, and public space has the potential to be inclusive."

- Mark Bradford