Graffiti Heather Vickery 3/24/04

Mey yea[h] do[g]

It<’>s all good!

• These two pieces of graffiti were found on the 3^rd floor entrance of the left side stairwell of the Kimball Residence Hall
• The specific author is unknown, however, it is fairly safe to assume that a Skidmore student (age 17-23) did these and it is likely that they lived in Kimball.
• The intended audience would have been other Skidmore students. It would not have been intended for any other person coming into the dorm because of it’s location in one of the auxiliary stairwells.
• There is no iconography or imagery included
• Analyzing the graffiti required filling in the faded parts of the above graffito and trying to decide whether the first word is Mey of Hey. If it is Mey it might just mean something along the lines of blah or is being used in an excitatory of celebratory way. If it was meant to be Hey then the author was probably in a rush and it was most likely put there to catch the attention of the viewer. One also needs to understand that the term dog is slang for friend and that the author is not in any way referring to the canine species. The second graffito required less work even though neither was difficult to decipher. The “its” should have been it’s as all good did belong to it but that it is all good. However, this would not confuse the reader, as it is a mistake often made by anyone. Moreover, the phrase it’s all good is well know to mean that everything is all right. The general identities of the authors were easily discerned because the graffiti are located on a college campus as was the intended audience. Both graffiti were written with markers one in orange and one in red/pink, this fact could suggest that the author did not just take a marker out of his/her bag and write one day but that they went and got a colored marker for this purpose but that is not certain and therefore nothing can be assumed.
• These answers illustrate the inane nature of the writings. They were either written because the authors were bored or because they thought it would be funny.