“This art and text project by Caroline Koebel and Kyle Schlesinger is a loving drift through the streets of Berlin to examine and to be inspired by its raw, lively, lustful, sometimes esoteric stencil culture. Exquisitely photographed, this work plays in the in-betweens of poetics and politics, the trivial and the insightful, the amusing and the disturbing. One way or another, this book will seduce you.” -Critical Art Ensemble

“Contemporary trackers on the trail of an esoteric species, Koebel and Sclesinger have captured a gallery of transitory signs from the surface of Berlin’s walls. The very sign of urbanism, these swiftly made images depend on a community of knowing readers to recognize their codes, nod, and signal back across the space of time and geography. The city is the site, scene, of a whole system of traces and communications. The marks show their ephemerality and questionable legality in the very stealth mode of their production. Stenciled, spray painted, rapidly produced, they haunt the walls with their fading imagery, semaphore signals in a common but still-specialized system, introducing their alternative image-speak into the regulated zones of public discourse. A beautiful collection, though framed by its introduction.” -Johanna Drucker