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The fully realised work.
Also known as: Masterpiece graffiti, Full colour piece
The large multi-colour graffiti work standing at the top of the practice's graded vocabulary.
Is the largest and most worked form in the graffiti vocabulary, above the tag and the throw-up.
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Requires hours of undisturbed time, so its existence in a place is evidence about that place — a piece marks somewhere the writer was not going to be interrupted, which is information the work itself does not state.
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Completes a graded vocabulary in which each level is defined by the time available rather than by intent.
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Large interlocking letters in several colours with outlines, highlights and a background, covering a wall and taking hours rather than minutes.
The tag, the throw-up and the piece form one graded vocabulary defined by time available.