Photo by Rob Taussig, The Suburban
The Suburban, a local weekly primarily geared at anglophone families in the west end of Montreal, has declared a notorious tagger apprehended on this week’s cover. “Castro Found!” the paper boldly declares. Unfortunately he was lost again before the end of the article. The graphic seen above was the cover shot. Quite strangely, that is not Castro’s tag. "Is it art?" the Suburban wants to know. Really - is it even news?
This guy actively wrote his name all over every available surface west of St. Laurent Street for years, and then disappeared. Those with a keen eye for vintage vandalism have surely noticed that he’s back at it. Minus, it would seem his trademark “VC” crew. Feels like it must have been at least five or six years since I saw his lazy scrawl scribbled about town. He’s still out for fame, but besides managing to get named by a reporter and then bouncing, there’s nothing new happening style-wise. Reporter P.A. Sevigny gives Castro’s age as 27.
So why not show a Castro piece? Aside from the fact that there’s nothing to them, they’re giving the poor bastard more exposure than he ever needed by printing his real name. There is a criminal case being built against him, according to the paper. I guess the idea is not to cater to his ego by putting his work in print; just to convict him there. The guy is 27 and he still needs people to pay attention to his drawings. I think he’s suffering enough. Unfortunately I can't find a flick to post myself.
