This image features a 2015 public art commission by Sandile Radebe at the Century City MyCiTi Bus Station in Cape Town. The work, composed of abstract forms derived from graffiti lettering and applied using vinyl on glass, reinterprets the station’s transparent façade as a canvas for urban semiotics. Feeding into Sandile’s ongoing Imaginary Cities studio practice, the blockletter graffiti letterforms are conceived as city blocks viewed from an aerial perspective, transforming the visual language of street art into a speculative urban cartography. This conceptual layering challenges conventional separations between street culture and contemporary art, positioning graffiti as both an aesthetic and architectural tool for reimagining the city.
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