1/16/25: “An Excerpt from ‘Novena For The City Of Paint,’” by Roberto Carlos Ascalon

Feels like every city I’ve been to recently is covered in graffiti: Tacoma, Seattle, NYC. I have a complex relationship with graffiti. It reminds me of what the streets looked like as I was growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 70’s and early 80’s. It’s cyclical - at certain times it’s as as if cities themselves are rising up to tell us something…