DETAILS

tough times don’t last

Medium: photography
Year: 2016
Materials: digital

Artist notes

graffiti on a box truck framed by bare trees and industrial infrastructure.

the message appears simple at first, a platitude about resilience, but the composition complicates it. the desolate landscape and gray sky suggest the opposite, creating tension between what the words promise and what the image shows. hope and doubt occupying the same frame.

A photograph taken through bare tree branches of a box truck with graffiti reading "Tough Times Don't Last" in black spray paint on its white side. Industrial buildings and bare trees surround the scene.