We lost a member of our community last month. Ben wrote a handful of different names during the last 10 years such as Avisr, Erie, and others. He is known for his larger-than-life tags and multi-colored fill-ins done in high-visibility areas. He will be remembered for his work and also for his larger-than-life personality and the positive impact he had on his friends and family. Rest in Piece AVISR, 1992-2022.

The city cleared out brush and debris from this old railroad structure, and the ancient Sufr fill is still hanging on, but even more faded. Pictures from October 2021. Check the link for more info: https://richmondindgraffiti.com/2020/05/24/before-after-5/

Sufr Mono pieces from 2004 at a small nearby town at a spot that doesn’t exist anymore. This car was also posted several times from 2011-2015 on the railfan site, RR Picture Archives .Net, sun-faded and with new tags on the car, but the pieces are holding up very well.

Row 1: Old N&W sign, 2002ish. Mono piece, 2003, with a Geo next to it. Seek Outline from mid 90s. Row 2: Mascot One, Silence, 2001. Dark tag under OSB. Faded Sufr piece from 2000s. Row 3: Piece to the left of Mize (https://wordpress.com/post/richmondindgraffiti.com/506). Trackside 2010s or so. Velcro, Anxer tags.

A few tags from out-of-town writers popped up in the year 2000 while they were passing through. The local “Sufr” tag on the dumpster came later after joining with ASM, an Indy crew.

More recent highlights of freights rolling through town. Those old A-Boxes and that Rail Box take me back to the early 2000s, still benching at the same spots 20 years later.

Here is a scanned photo from 2009 or so, maybe later. This a door at a local skate spot known as “Rascals” because of the bar of the same name that used to be near there. There also was a movie theater and a paperback bookstore in the corner. Notice the “Justus” tag in the center, which was the oldest tag on the door probably from the mid-late 90s.

Notice the nice Zephyr catch. See link below for more info on Zephyr, The Graffiti Dinosaur.

https://wordpress.com/post/richmondindgraffiti.com/1407