Bball court
This is the outdoor basketball court of my school! 
Had to put a layer of low-opacity white over the “graffiti” part to make it seem more like part of the picture because the picture could only be taken behind the window… Opening it was scary because it felt like I would break the glass or something and damage the camera. This was my second design after the Wall. The images come from my earliest designs in the sketchbook. Originally I’d have put the “I’ll take each individual degenerate’s head and reach into it” image in but wanted to relate it to the blown up dummy. Again she’s lost her head and it’s sucking his d*ck. If you go on to YouTube and search for Without Me Live (not MTV version, but his actual concerts) he’ll be having the ICP blown-ups do the same for him.
The centre guy with the Jason mask on is a direct reference to Eminem, with the blond hair and all. “I’ma be a f*cking rapist in a Jason mask!” or something like that in his song “Criminal”. The MMLP holds his best songs. Also, the chainsaw refers to the Texas Chainsaw, who came up in “Kill You” (Texas Chainsaw left his brains all dangling from his neck while his head barely hangs on!), whose real name is Jason. Er Texas Chainsaw is a horror drama set in Detroit and he wears a Detroit hockey mask.
The right character, skull hamster, was the very first design I had which is why it’s head is like that, but I wanted to keep it that way because in graffiti there’s progress. Throughout my coursework, I think my designs became less toy-like. But it is still. Just less from J-13.
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I know I said this once before, but I’ll say it all over again. Firstly I really like the fact that you’ve included the little grey hybrid-hamster character (whom you’ve yet to name which is terrible because a name can establish that your character has life. Although Shakespeare would argue otherwise, going, “What’s in a name?”)
Anyway, I especially liked that he/she/it is in every work because it seems to allude to the literary motif. Constant repetition; it links your various graffiti together and makes it a single entity.
Secondly, I really wanted you to take the photograph of yourself in the photo because it would make the work more personal. it would have been great if the school management had approved of actually drawing your design on the bball court, although that would be a ton more work, but since they didn’t by having you stand on the graffiti would let the viewer believe (even more) that the work is real, or rather not be all cyber-spacey.
^^