Whilst the city maybe inhabited by adults, children and old people, the graffiti artist Blek Le Rat mainly used stencils of children rather as it drew from his memories of playing outside (Prou, 2008, p14). For him, the impact of architecture and space taught him about the possibilities of the urban environment; particularly revolving around adventureland (2008, p11). This was a hideout for Parisian teenagers away from authorities and tucked behind a supermarket that kids went back and forth between endlessly. Even Jansen, who typically painted figures as ghostly silhouettes because of their loss of understanding of cultural traditions (Jansen, 2006, p110), has a preference for using photos of children. A contrasting human connection is offered where we see more innocently overt figures at home in their landscape not alienated by it. For children and, the world becomes a playground, no matter whether a toddler or teenager; all that changes is the how the space is used. The concepts of escapism remain, whether into a fictional imaginative world or a reclusive zone away from persecuting parents and more. Ironically, against the backdrop of an architectural order, Sesena offers many inbetween spaces, and opportunities within the uninhabited and unfinished. Between the themes of luxury and scarcity, it appears sometimes that a luxury in space of a hideout or getaway is what the younger demographic would prefer, but a scarcity in material; wherever this space is, it doesn’t matter if it’s an undercroft or alleyway. On the flip side adults seem more preferential to the fundamental living spaces and running water, yet a luxury in material.
It could be argued a creative poignancy or potency even, arises under times of oppression. Troublemakers and rulebreakers acting in non-aggressive fashions are integral to upsetting established orders, to challenge order with chaos.
The driving protagonist for this project will focus on the graffiti artist who occupies interstitial spaces within Madrid and its outer limits, occupying and becoming the insurgent upon the ghost urbanisations. This also goes hand in hand with the youth population of Sesena and their growth and increasing frustrations of the current political measures in Spain, and indeed the way of life in Sesena with lack of cultural, civic or leisure spaces.
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