Blu

This is another stop motion animation. This time by Italian Street graffiti artist Blu. This animation called Muto, shows his weird, grotesque dismembered figures, mutating across a very urban wall. His drawings and the thought of the time and effort that went into the animation are impressive, but what I really find interesting is the idea of what graffiti is. To create the illusion of movement, Blu must paint over what he has done and the result is a white emulsion snail trail, wiping out the previous drawings. The background Blu uses has already been tagged by graffiti, and Blu's drawings seem to bulldoze over them with their violent energy. It shows the temporal nature of graffiti and makes you wonder how long it was before someone else made their mark on his work.