Art Objects

Railroad Spike Track Teeth Black Object Art by RD-357 Real Deal Original Tag Designer Collectible Pop Artist Artwork. 2021 Original Spray Paint RD Tag on Reclaimed Metal Railroad Spike Art Object Size 6x1 Artwork. Railroad Spike Track Teeth Black by RD-357 – Reclaimed Object in Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork Railroad Spike Track Teeth Black is a 2021 original artwork by RD-357, also known as Real Deal, a graffiti artist whose work explores the intersection of street authenticity and industrial minimalism. This piece features a reclaimed metal railroad spike measuring 6 x 1 inches, transformed through the addition of RD’s distinct black tag. Executed in spray and marker, the tag cuts across the rusted shaft in a tight, angular form, accented by an arrow pushing forward. This object functions as both a sculptural work and a symbolic message, channeling graffiti’s mobile essence into a handheld relic. The spike—once a mechanical element of motion—becomes the vessel for name-based authorship, connecting the physical infrastructure of rail transit with graffiti’s legacy of distribution, presence, and personal signature. Tag as Sculpture and Object as Surface RD-357’s choice of object echoes graffiti’s foundational principle of using what is available to communicate identity and energy. Unlike traditional street surfaces like walls or doors, this object carries its own embedded story before it is ever painted—steel forged for permanence, wear from transit and time, dents from labor. The tag laid upon it becomes a layer of personality over raw material, marking the spike as no longer industrial but autobiographical. The black line curves through the space with purpose and direction, controlled yet expressive. The arrow flaring from the D propels the tag with motion, continuing graffiti’s tradition of symbolizing flow, travel, and attack. The artist’s use of black ink on a distressed, brown-and-steel base emphasizes legibility and intent, evoking early handstyle culture in its most stripped-down form. Graffiti Culture, Movement, and Found Object Authenticity Railroads have always played a central role in graffiti’s evolution—not only as literal canvases for mobile expression, but as metaphors for movement, rebellion, and connectivity. By placing his tag on a spike rather than a train, RD-357 draws attention to the mechanisms behind motion. This object represents the understructure of transit—what holds tracks together, what enables trains to move, and by extension, what allowed graffiti to gain visibility across cities and boroughs. The object becomes a fragment of cultural infrastructure, repurposed through the graffiti writer’s hand into an artifact of identity. It is as much about claiming authorship as it is about preserving the overlooked materials that define how cities are built and traversed. Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork in Micro Form In the context of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork, Railroad Spike Track Teeth Black is a testament to how graffiti can inhabit small-scale objects without losing impact. This piece condenses the energy of a full burner into a six-inch form. It distills namewriting into something tactile and permanent, a tool transformed into a sculpture. As a collectible artifact, it speaks to both the material history of the city and the personal history of the artist. The spike becomes a bridge—between labor and expression, between transportation and authorship, between anonymity and signature. It is graffiti boiled down to one tag, one object, and one gesture—yet it contains the weight of movement, story, and presence.

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Railroad Spike Track Teeth Blue Object Art by RD-357 Real Deal Original Tag Designer Collectible Pop Artist Artwork. 2021 Original Spray Paint RD Tag on Reclaimed Metal Railroad Spike Art Object Size 6x1 Artwork. Railroad Spike Track Teeth Blue by RD-357 – Original Object Art in Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork Railroad Spike Track Teeth Blue is a 2021 original artwork by RD-357, also known as Real Deal, a graffiti artist and designer known for integrating traditional tagging culture with found-object experimentation. This unique piece features RD’s iconic handstyle tag executed in bright blue spray paint across the surface of a reclaimed railroad spike, measuring 6 x 1 inches. A powerful collision of industrial form and street symbolism, the object retains the weight and texture of its original function while transforming into a three-dimensional graffiti artifact. The signature arrow, a common motif in graffiti letterforms, extends from the letter D, pointing forward with intentional motion—signaling movement, defiance, and direction. As a tagged artifact, this spike not only references the rail systems central to graffiti’s early distribution but becomes a piece of urban archaeology infused with authorship and attitude. Tag Culture and Object as Canvas In graffiti, the tag is the most distilled form of artistic identity. It is name, logo, and signal. RD-357’s application of his tag on a metal spike recontextualizes this signature within the aesthetics of artifact and utility. By placing a clean, fluid handstyle on a corroded and heavy object, the artist plays with contrasts—impermanence marked on permanence, fluid gesture on solid form, gesture on function. The use of blue against the spike’s blackened surface brings a vibrancy and clarity that stands out even on this miniature scale. It becomes a physical message, less about the space it occupies and more about what it carries—a name rooted in street history etched onto a tool once used to anchor systems of transit and division. The object is no longer a spike; it is a signed sculpture, a mobile tag, a symbol of permanence in a culture built on motion. Railroads, Movement, and the Foundation of Style Railroads are more than infrastructure in the graffiti narrative—they are symbols of distribution, escape, and style travel. Writers from the 1970s forward used trains to extend the visibility of their names across boroughs and regions. RD-357 honors that history not with a painting of a train, but with the spike that once fastened steel to wood, that once anchored a system which graffiti artists hijacked to spread messages. This spike is a poetic repurposing. It holds the weight of transit and turns it into voice. It turns the ghost of industrial decay into the object of modern subcultural celebration. The use of an authentic railroad component makes this piece not just art, but a relic transformed—a utilitarian object made iconic by graffiti’s mark of authorship. Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork as Object-Based Language Railroad Spike Track Teeth Blue is a rare example of graffiti object art where the artist refuses to be confined to wall, canvas, or digital format. RD-357 embraces the object as both message and material, infusing his tag with dimension, tactility, and context. This approach bridges graffiti’s traditional emphasis on repetition and surface with the collectible logic of pop and conceptual art. It is a handstyle made sculptural, an industrial artifact made personal, and a name that resists being forgotten. In Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork, such pieces remind us that graffiti lives not only on surfaces we walk past, but also in the objects we carry, the materials we recover, and the symbols we choose to elevate. This work is not merely seen—it is held, it is felt, it is signed in steel.

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Sket-One Sharpie Chisel Tip Limited Edition Designer Art Object Collectible Artwork by Artist Sket-One 2022 Single Marker

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