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37° 46′ N
87° 07′ W
OHIO RIVER / 01 A COMMUNITY-BUILT FIELD ARCHIVE

THE LIVING
ARCHIVE OF
GRAFFITI.

Pieces disappear. Stories shouldn’t. Beginning in Owensboro, Henderson, and Evansville—documenting the river cities one frame at a time.

01 / OHIO RIVER CORRIDOR

Unknown writer · photographed 2023

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1,284 PIECES DOCUMENTED
243 WRITERS
61 CREWS
3 FOUNDING CITIES
1984—2025 YEARS REPRESENTED
WALLS
TALK.
FIELD MAP / LOWER OHIO RIVER

WHAT’S ON
THE WALLS.

Owensboro. Henderson. Evansville. A living map of documented work along the river, with locations softened where preservation calls for it.

FILTER:
OHIO
RIVER
EVANSVILLE
HENDERSON → OWENSBORO
WILDSTYLE
SELECTED RECORD / 002

RASK / VEK

HENDERSON YARD · 1998

STILL EXISTS BUFFED UNKNOWN
FILE IT BEFORE
THE BUFF DOES.
FRESH FROM THE FIELD

NEWEST
DOCUMENTS.

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01STATUS UNKNOWN
Henderson, KY · 1997

Burner behind the old foundry

Photo by M. Reyes

02STILL EXISTS
Evansville, IN · 2024

Sunday layup by the river

Photo by staticjoy

03STATUS UNKNOWN
Owensboro, KY · 2008

Chrome still running

Photo by N. Park

ORAL
HISTORY
NO. 07
FEATURED WRITER / ORAL HISTORY 07

“The river taught me
how to find the city.”

VERA
‘DUST’ MORAN

Twenty-eight years of letters, freight lines, and remembering who came before. Dust walks us through a disappearing corridor between Evansville and Owensboro.

ACTIVE 1996—PRESENT28 DOCUMENTED PIECES
THE NOTEBOOK / LATEST DISCUSSIONS

MEMORY LIVES
IN THE MARGINS.

HISTORICAL ID

Anyone remember the blue wholecar across from the Henderson riverfront in ’02?

Last reply 14 min ago · 12 field notes

CREW HISTORY

Tracing the old US 41 corridor roll call, 1988–1995

Last reply 2 hr ago · 31 field notes

LOCATION

The floodwall piece in Owensboro was buffed this morning

Last reply 5 hr ago · 8 field notes

ARCHIVE ETHOS
COMMUNITY
OVER CLOUT

NO LIKES. NO FOLLOWERS.
JUST PROOF IT WAS HERE.