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graffito metadata

Graffito Metadata is a digital archive that reflects my personal, outsider experience of observing graffiti in my neighborhood. With no access to the culture’s internal networks, I encounter these tags without context—unsure of who left them, when, or why. This project is a response to that uncertainty: an act of speculative storytelling that imagines the people behind the marks.

Graffiti functions as a form of subcultural communication, where walls become informal archives layered with meaning. These marks are read nonlinearly as they appear, disappear, and overlap. This site embraces that nonlinear structure, and connects it to the interactions of the digital archive, allowing users to move freely and draw their own connections.

The graffiti featured here is real, sourced from my surroundings. Though the "metadata" is entirely fictional. Rather than offering factual insight, Graffito Metadata explores the limits of interpretation—the inferences and imagined narratives of an outsider taking in the graffiti of their every day environment.

created by: tito rocha, 2025

graffiti: sourced in montreal + lisbon

typefaces: find replace, anonymous pro

track: snd - "untitled", travelog (reissue)