Collection Boxes
Across city streets and quiet suburbs alike, the humble collection box stands as a fixture of routine, a sentinel of correspondence and communication. Yet for many, these metal forms have become more than functional. They are canvases, message boards, and mirrors reflecting the pulse of their surroundings. Layers of marks and tags gather over years, each mark both an act of expression and reclamation.
Where one person sees government property, another sees a public surface - a place to declare presence, to signal belonging, to test boundaries. The result is a living palimpsest, ever-changing as paint fades and new marks appear. On these boxes, the ephemeral meets the everyday: the transience of graffiti collides with the permanence of infrastructure, leaving behind a dialogue between artist, observer, and institution.
