Chapter 4: BioGraff and Street Art

BioGraff is everywhere in the Dead Cities. Using Spore-rich mycelial clay, mushfoam paints and phosphorescent photoplastics, the Scibes create intricate living pieces that pulse and glow and shift. Some choose to create abstract letterforms and compositions while others depict strange quasi-mythological creatures and representations of the Old Gods and Odd Gods in celebration of the Gone Times and the Spirits of the Lost But Not Forgotten.

The tools Scribes use to create their pieces are as varied and creative as the art they are used to produce. From Spore-oscillators and sonic diffusers to old tech compressors and sprayflasks, a Scribe’s media arsenal is always custom built and unique.

Mycelial clay and mushfoam have many versatile applications and the Scribes are accomplished fungalchemists, each artist having perfected their own mixtures and recipes to produce all manner of spore-infused textures and forms.

BioGraff is always incredibly varied. Some Scribes spend days crafting intricate and complex installations that grow and evolve over time. The blatclans are more hit-and-run, dropping colour bombs [K-bomz] that explode with unpredictable beauty and chaos. Some Scribes work only in the old tunnels and chambers of the Underlands, producing bioluminescent oddities that never fail to amaze when discovered. Others prefer the outskirts of the Dead Cities, using the dust and oddlight as their backdrops, and then of course there are those who work exclusively in the SubVerse, the virtual layer that sits like a second skin upon our physical world, the digital space that our forebears called the metaverse or cyberspace - again, more on that later.

Spent Pods - by Lurkka [Trad Spray on plastiboard]

I have a deep love of BioGraff and its place in our culture and I have captured many images of it in my travels. Below I have curated galleries of some of my favourite pieces…

BIOGRAFF

ULTRAGRAFF

SUBGRAFF