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Blackbook- A Realistic Awareness Builds Pop Street Artwork Limited Edition Giclee Print on Fine Art Paper by Urban Graffiti Modern Artist DocTC5. 2019 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of 25 Artwork Size- 17x14 Small Crease To Extreme Lower Left Facing Edge. Blackbook - A Realistic Awareness Builds by DocTC5 Blackbook - A Realistic Awareness Builds is a striking example of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork by DocTC5, a foundational figure in the legacy of New York graffiti. This 2019 limited edition giclee print captures the bold spirit of blackbook culture while paying tribute to the foundational aesthetics that shaped early graffiti movements. DocTC5, a long-standing member of the historic crew The Crazy 5 (TC5), brings decades of style writing mastery into a single composition that blends wildstyle lettering, figurative illustration, and symbolic motifs in a format traditionally reserved for sketchbook experimentation. Tribute to Style Writing and TC5 Legacy The work features DocTC5’s signature fusion of elaborate lettering and playful character design. The central graffiti piece, rendered in layered hues of magenta, burnt orange, and yellow, spells out ZAPRC in a stylized format characteristic of 1970s and 1980s NYC train-era wildstyle. The surrounding design elements are saturated with symbolism—the bold TC5 initials above the work reference one of the most influential graffiti collectives in the history of urban art. Beneath the piece, a female character in a diving motion floats over a white circle and luminous yellow-edged star containing the number 5, a visual cue linking the print back to The Crazy 5. The acronym ARAB—A Realistic Awareness Builds—appears in precise handstyle in the lower right corner, cementing the print’s narrative and purpose as a call to authenticity, evolution, and knowledge in graffiti practice. Giclee Fine Art with Street Authenticity Produced as a fine art giclee on archival paper, this edition balances museum-quality printmaking with raw street aesthetics. Measuring 17x14 inches, the print preserves the feel of an original blackbook page while offering a refined visual texture. This signed and numbered edition of 25 includes the artist’s embossed seal in the lower right corner, signaling both provenance and artistic intent. The slight crease noted on the lower left edge speaks not to damage, but to the lived quality that defines much of the graffiti world’s most valuable artifacts—these pieces are handled, shared, and carried, often reflecting the rough texture of the culture itself. Graffiti as Cultural Message and Collective Memory DocTC5’s Blackbook - A Realistic Awareness Builds is more than a nostalgic homage. It is a transmission of knowledge from one of the original New York graffiti writers to the contemporary audience, packaged in a format that echoes the sacred personal blackbooks of early graffiti. It blends vivid color palettes with structured complexity and energetic flow, reminding viewers that graffiti is more than public vandalism—it is a codified language, a form of rebellion, and a deeply expressive culture. With this edition, DocTC5 preserves the legacy of The Crazy 5 while inviting a new generation to explore what it means to write, remember, and evolve.

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Blackbook- Return To Forever Pop Street Artwork Limited Edition Giclee Print on Fine Art Paper by Urban Graffiti Modern Artist DocTC5. 2019 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of 25 Artwork Size- 17x14 Blackbook - Return To Forever by DocTC5 Blackbook - Return To Forever is a vibrant fusion of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork by DocTC5, whose full name is often credited as Doc of The Crazy 5. This 2019 limited edition giclee print pays homage to the enduring influence of jazz music on graffiti culture and visual storytelling. Executed with meticulous detail and saturated in symbolic energy, this piece reflects DocTC5’s deep reverence for Black American music history while maintaining the aesthetic codes of classic New York graffiti. With its 17x14 inch format and a limited run of 25 signed and numbered copies, the artwork preserves both the intimacy of a blackbook and the visual punch of a large-scale mural. Graffiti as Tribute to Jazz Icons and Culture This piece stands as a multi-layered tribute to the legacy of jazz and its cultural resonance within street art. The title Return To Forever references the iconic jazz fusion group of the same name and suggests a perpetual influence loop between sound and style. A hand-drawn likeness of a jazz trio appears in the lower right corner, giving shape to the musical legacy of figures like Miles Davis, whose name is referenced with the line Riff in Peace. The skyline silhouette at the top of the piece links back to New York City’s sonic and visual heritage, where graffiti writers and jazz musicians both claimed the streets and subways as their stages. The centerpiece graffiti text spells out Jazz in a wildstyle execution that is both chaotic and controlled, evocative of the improvisational structure of jazz music itself. Fine Art Execution with Underground Credibility Printed using archival-quality giclee methods on fine art paper, the piece retains the texture and color fidelity of original marker, ink, and aerosol sketches common to graffiti blackbooks. The lettering is surrounded by a mist of blues, purples, and reds that mimic the dreamy ambience of a late-night jazz session. The inclusion of tags, quotes, and dedications throughout the work reinforces the communal, layered authorship that defines both jazz and street culture. CD101.9, a reference to the iconic jazz radio station, anchors the lower left corner, positioning the piece in a real historical moment. The embossed DocTC5 seal in the bottom right guarantees authenticity and connects the work to the artist's decades-long career. Preserving Blackbook Culture in Contemporary Art Blackbook - Return To Forever stands as both an archival artifact and a contemporary celebration of the roots of graffiti. It illustrates how artists like DocTC5 continue to keep alive the collaborative spirit of the blackbook, where writers gathered to trade ideas, develop styles, and document their voice. This edition offers viewers a rare look into that sacred creative space, blending visual art, homage, and cultural memory into a single unified composition. Through Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork like this, DocTC5 reaffirms graffiti’s role as a vital medium of artistic and cultural expression.

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Blackbook- Two Hope 92 Pop Street Artwork Limited Edition Giclee Print on Fine Art Paper by Urban Graffiti Modern Artist DocTC5. 2019 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition of 25 Artwork Size- 17x14. Small Crease To Extreme Lower Left Facing Edge. Blackbook - Two Hope 92 by DocTC5 The 2019 giclee print titled Blackbook - Two Hope 92 by DocTC5 captures a raw and cerebral snapshot of graffiti’s evolution into narrative street pop art. Measuring 17 by 14 inches, this signed and numbered limited edition of 25 is a visual archive laced with coded language, cryptic references, and hyper-stylized aerosol typography. The work is not just a visual display of style writing but a layered commentary stitched together by phrases, symbols, and cartoon-like figures that reinforce graffiti’s connection to street culture, urban consciousness, and media critique. DocTC5 and the Legacy of Subway Style DocTC5, a member of The Cool 5 crew, represents a lineage in New York graffiti that embraced the subway car as a moving canvas during the late twentieth century. Blackbook - Two Hope 92 extends this history through the controlled chaos of colored outlines, highlighted text, and layered caricatures that recall the blackbook practice of early graffiti writers. It is a studio work that maintains the visual and textual density of its roots, showcasing a hybrid vocabulary of visual poetry and street messaging. Each phrase functions as a cultural timestamp from within the underground scene—references like Mushroom City, CIA, and Train Vibes channel a coded worldview shaped by years of subway bombing and street experience. Multilayered Symbolism and Commentary This print collides vibrant yellows, oranges, and reds with muted cyan and pink washes, creating a shifting landscape of psychological and cultural cues. Scattered graffiti tags, mental satire like Be Aware Cause the Glass Penis Has a Mouth That Laughs, and imagery such as disembodied hands and surreal characters turn this piece into a collage of urban satire. These aren’t random annotations—they mimic the marginalia found in blackbooks where artists build entire ideologies through doodles, ideas, and quotes layered between wildstyle letters and burner sketches. Here, the artwork doubles as a social artifact, archiving thought processes that reflect a specific moment in street-level art activism and consciousness. Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork as Cultural Archive Two Hope 92 is more than a tribute to an era. It is a preserved graphic journal—a stylized memory map that maintains graffiti's foundation in artistic resistance and coded identity. Printed on fine art paper with archival giclee technique, the piece delivers museum-quality execution while preserving its blackbook aesthetic. The limited edition is individually signed and stamped, reinforcing its rarity. A small crease at the lower left edge marks the human quality of the object, grounding its artistic merit in the physical wear of cultural production. DocTC5’s piece offers a rare and intimate entry point into the thought and visual process of a street art movement that continues to shape contemporary visual culture.

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