For the past several years, random stenciled-in and spray-painted grafitti art has been common along sidewalks, brick walls, manholes and any other reasonably spray paintable edifice on public property. It first started out with text-based socio-political-economic messages (“Stop Bush!” or “A Tree Used to Be Here!”), that on the face made some sense, and would presumably make some people stop and think.
But then the messages started to revert to images. And they also began to get pretty random and, well, puzzling. For instance, there’s The Cat, which is among the longest-lasting and most persistent of the messages. There’s also the more recent and random likeness of the late Jerry Orbach. And then there’s The Passion of The Saget:
“The Passion of the Saget”
Part of the Urban Stencil Art Gallery
Yes, you WILL obey!