untitled subway graffiti 3 Favorite 

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Date: 

Feb 9 2025

Location: 

New York City

alternating yellow and white chalk on black blank subway advertisement spaces.
"NO ONE VOTED FOR ELON"
"RISE AND RESIST"
"RESISTANCE IS CONTAGIOUS"
"WHO WILL SAVE US? WE WILL SAVE US"

found on the uptown C train platform at 50th street station. found on february 9, 2025.

Posted by leviya on Feb 10 2025

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
Does nothing (at all)Doesn't really have an impact, beyond possibly expressing the artist-activist's dissatisfaction with the world.

Notes

I saw many people stop to read and take photos of the art to spread its message, so i think it works -- especially on blank advertising spaces.