Oliver Munday on Expression and Transgression
“The simple answer is that graffiti infuses art and expression with transgression. The danger inherent to the act is addictive.”
Editor’s Note: Read Oliver Munday’s new short story “Getting Up.”
“Getting Up” is a new story by Oliver Munday, an associate creative director for The Atlantic. To mark the story’s publication, Munday and Katherine Hu, an assistant editor for the magazine, discussed the story over email. Their conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
Katherine Hu: In your story, “Getting Up,” a father, Haiden, struggles with losing his identity to parenthood. He begins to rediscover his sense of purpose by returning to an activity of his youth—graffiti. What drew you to this art form?
I, very much like Haiden, used to write graffiti as a kid. The simple answer is that
