Irish street artist Maser: ‘All I look for is openness’
Irish artist Maser in front of a building he has painted. Pic: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
According to lore, modern graffiti — in lieu of etched cave paintings and deep, red hieroglyphics — began in the late 1960s, when a Philadelphia teenager named Darryl McCray started spray-painting his nickname, Cornbread, around the city, hoping to catch the attention of his crush.
Unknowingly, then, he conceived an art form. One that inserts, inspires, and irks in equal measure.
