Everyone comes across those phrases that stick with them. Often quotes or lyrics, these phrases carry a deep meaning for the person who stumbles upon them. Some phrases are so powerful that they transcend generations and continue to affect new readers or listeners. Others are more confined, only being meaningful to a select few for a short period of time. But no matter what the scale of meaning is, once you've come across a meaningful phrase it's hard to forget.
My main mode of transportation is walking, so even when I don't have my camera I keep an eye out for stickers. On one of the many walks home from work I noticed a graffiti stencil on a transformer, I think, saying "bury me in soliloquies." I can't completely explain why, but that phrase struck me immediately. At first I thought it was the hopeless romantic in me connecting with a sentiment of longing. Bury me in those speeches of why you want me, why you miss me, etc. But thinking about it recently, I've started to think that it has to be more than that. A soliloquy is a discourse or utterance either to one's self or as if they were alone, according to Dictionary.com. So the phrase now is looking to bury you in private musings or someone's true feelings. To speak like the world isn't there to judge you or your thoughts. To be surrounded by the real opinions of others to such an extent that there can be no room for anything else. When I look at it that way, it's less about romance and more an acceptance of yourself and the true thoughts of others. Of course I could totally be reading way to into this. Whatever the true reasoning or meaning behind this phrase is, I was happy when I found it as a sticker in Bloomfield. It is one of the few pieces I've found that exists as both traditional graffiti and sticker. I find both methods work for it though, as a private find or as an in your face statement. And while I didn't find an official website for it, I did find tumblr, Flickr, and Instagram posts from others who have found and felt the need to share this phrase (click on each site for a link to these posts). So whatever the author's true meaning behind the phrase is, it certainly has struck a chord.
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Maggie Ondrey
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