Category: Destroy Seattle

Hit this one out of the park.

I’m saddened that I haven’t seen any new Destroy graffiti in almost a month. I’m not sure if the perpetrators of this phenomenon have retired and moved on to other nefarious deeds, or if they have simply moved into neighborhoods that I don’t frequent. Hoping that this won’t be my last entry on the subject, here are the two most recent of my finds, from mid-January.

Glory be to the new sticker art revolution.

I just did a little scavenging on Flickr and found a handful of Destroy designs that I hadn’t personally encountered, so I snagged them for the sake of your viewing pleasure. The files have been named after the holder of the Flickr account from whom the image was swiped. All photos were available through Creative Commons, except one which I grabbed with a screen capture because, well, fuck him for being so uptight.

Here are a few more Destroy graffiti stickers that I’ve stumbled upon in the past week.

Last summer I started noticing an odd trend of sticker graffiti cropping up around town, the common thread being a tag with either the word “DESTROY” or the phrase “DESTROYED LIFE”. Initially I thought it to be some manner of political statement, but as the trend grew, the political nature waned. I started taking pictures of the works, as I stumbled on them, and decided it was high time to compile it all in a post. What strikes me as the oddest part about this trend is that, being as rampant as it is, I can’t find any murmurings about it online. One day, however, I was taking a picture of one of the bits of graffito and was approached by another fan who was excited to tell me about a few of which I wasn’t aware. Unfortunately, they were gone by the time I made it to those locations, but it was heartening to know that I’m not the only fan.

In order of my discovery:

My personal favorite is the Paul McCartney as Lee Harvey Oswald, getting shot by Jack Ruby. Fucking classic.

As always, caveat emptor, motherfuckers.