Piece 

Tracy 168 created this graffiti on the side of a New York City subway car using spray paint. The use of spray paint is crucial here. It's a quintessentially modern material, born of industrial chemistry and mass production, that offers an immediacy unmatched by brush and paint. The artist’s moniker, rendered in bubble letters, is proof of a highly skilled tradition, developed in response to the gritty, urban environment and offering a creative voice to marginalized communities. This was art in motion, made for a fleeting audience of fellow commuters, an ephemeral gallery hurtling through the city. The very act of painting on a subway car transforms it, challenging the intended function of this mass transit vehicle. It becomes a canvas, and a statement. The repetitive motion, the constant movement, the daily grind, is disrupted by the artist’s intervention. In the end, appreciating a work like this means considering the context of its making, blurring the line between the act of vandalism and artistic expression.