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55 field studies of Signal surfaces, decay and texture — part of the Chronostratic Field Studies archive.

55 field studies · 76 photos

Layers of torn wheatpaste posters and event flyers, faded print bleeding through.

Signal Study 1

Black spray-painted tags and scrawled signatures cover a cream-painted wall.

Signal Study 2

A raised house-number plaque embossed into grimy white stucco render.

Signal Study 3

A spray-stencilled alphanumeric code marks a cracked grey render wall.

Signal Study 4

A hand-painted red arrow and number mark a heavily weathered teal-green wall.

Signal Study 5

Faded ghost-sign lettering bleeds through decades of peeling paint on a weathered metal panel.

Signal Study 6

A blue-painted door armoured in dozens of overlapping stickers and spray tags.

Sticker-Covered Blue Door

Dense sticker collage of monster and eye characters plastered over a blue-grey surface.

Signal Study 8

Stickers and crew tags cover a ridged corrugated metal surface.

Signal Study 9

A spray-painted red and black figure drips down an exposed brick wall, blue paint traces above.

Painted Figure on Brick

A dense sticker collage covers a grey wall, an ivy vine creeping in from above.

Sticker Wall Collage

Faded red ochre pictograph symbols mark a weathered stone wall, rusted wire mesh at the edge.

Faded Pictograph Wall

A torn red ritual paper with Chinese characters clings to a weathered white stucco wall.

Signal Study 13

Abstract white and purple spray paint drips bleed across a dark painted surface.

Signal Study 14

A rust-streaked corrugated wall layered with stickers, spray tags and a chain-link fence overlay.

Signal Study 15

A grey utility door armoured edge to edge in overlapping stickers and crew tags.

Signal Study 16

Black spray-painted tags scrawl across a pale concrete underpass panel, a fibre-optic sticker nearby.

Signal Study 17

A vivid pink character mural with cartoon eyes shares a wall with red tag lettering and business stickers.

Signal Study 18

$Red stencilled fractions and an arrow mark a rooftop membrane, a dark water-stain gradient spreading across it.$

Signal Study 19

Faded maroon Thai lettering peels from an old wooden signage board beside a spray-painted mural.

Signal Study 20

Deep-carved kanji characters fill a speckled granite memorial stone.

Signal Study 21

A dense tangle of black utility cables spills around a stencilled junction box marked SSD-SM.

Night Cable Nest & Stencilled Junction Box

Layers of torn wheatpaste posters cling to a teal wooden door, faded print bleeding through.

Signal Study 23

Vivid yellow spray-paint graffiti letters sprawl across a cracked tiled wall.

Signal Study 24

Stencilled codes TUC0136 and PYT#11 mark a daylight utility junction box tagged ZAQ.

Signal Study 25

Marker graffiti tags cover a blue metal cabinet beside a rusted fire hydrant.

Signal Study 26

Overlapping graffiti tags cover a row of corrugated garage shutters.

Signal Study 27

White and black spray paint drips in loose abstract pours down old signage.

Signal Study 28

Stickers, spray tags and a hand-painted 'KNOCK' sign crowd a chain-link gate.

Sticker & Tag Gate

Hand-scrawled chalk doodles and business phone-number stickers cover a rusty corrugated wall.

Signal Study 30

Hand-painted red characters mark a concrete beam, a plant sprig pushing through the crevice.

Signal Study 31

A carved stone memorial plaque bears red and green painted characters beside scattered leaves.

Signal Study 32

A faded red and blue stencilled figure clings to plaster crumbling toward exposed brick.

Faded Mural Figure on Crumbling Plaster

A weathered wooden trail marker, its arrow barely legible, is nailed to a lichen-covered trunk.

Signal Study 34

A paste-up collage of an ornate robed figure disappears beneath heavy black and blue tags.

Signal Study 35

Cyrillic graffiti text and tag scribbles cover a weathered green door.

Signal Study 36

Colorful mural characters emerge from a soot-stained wall tangled with overhead wires.

Signal Study 37

A faded ghost-sign advertisement clings to a weathered galvanized metal panel.

Signal Study 38

A dense tangle of automotive wiring harnesses hangs like a nest on a market shutter.

Signal Study 39

Black spray-painted tags cover ornate carved wooden door panels.

Signal Study 40

Three printed talisman papers repeat down a row of weathered carved door panels.

Signal Study 41

A faded red stencilled mark flakes away on rough dark asphalt, only fragments of the paint surviving.

Signal Study 42

White stencilled numerals mark a grimy, stained wall, faint circular scrawl looping beside them.

Stencilled Numerals on Grime

A white stencilled symbol marks a dark, grimy stone wall.

White Stencil on Dark Stone

Purple stencilled lettering marks a weathered wall studded with small round ceramic adornments.

Purple Stencil & Ceramic Studs

Stencilled Glyph on Soot

A white stencilled circle and numeral mark a soot-streaked wall.

Stencil Circle on Soot

Black spray-painted tags and blue marker scrawl cover a white-painted wall, a wire crossing overhead.

Tags & Marker Scrawl

A dense sticker and paste-up collage frames an ornate carved wooden door, a red talisman cloth hanging beside it.

Sticker Collage on Carved Door

Colourful chalk graffiti and teal brush strokes cover a rusted metal door bolted with a padlock.

Chalk Graffiti on Rusted Door

A dense sticker collage armours a black lacquered surface, hundreds of tags and logos overlapping.

Sticker-Armoured Black Surface

Hundreds of overlapping stickers armour a black counter surface edge to edge.

Sticker Collage on Black Counter

A looping red spray-painted tag marks a speckled terrazzo concrete surface.

Red Spray Tag on Terrazzo

Hand-painted numbers mark a grid of worn, paint-chipped mailbox doors.

Hand-Painted Mailbox Numbers

A faded red talisman paper and stencilled numbers cling to a weathered metal shutter.

Talisman Paper & Stencils