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writing your name on the world so it can't pretend it didn't see you.
means marking a surface, usually illegally, with a stylized signature or symbol to claim visibility and territory.
from traces to late-1960s philadelphia and early-1970s new york, when a teenager known as taki 183 spray-painted his name across subway cars and got a 1971 new york times profile that turned a habit into a movement.
first celebritytaki 183 got a times feature in 1971
legal art5pointz building drew tourists before demolition in 2014
court win5pointz artists won 6.75 million dollars in 2018
style splittag, throw-up, and piece mark rising skill levels
for instance
taki 183 — greek-american courier whose tag started the new york scene
cornbread philadelphia — credited as the first modern tagger in the late 1960s
banksy — took tagging's anonymity and turned it into a market