36 Views of Hackney: Eine
August 16th, 2008Eine is one of the local Hackney street artists/vandals. He writes his nom de guerre on buildings and airbrushes letters of the alphabet on shop shutters.
When I first moved to the neighborhood, I took the letters as a kind of treasure hunt, first trying to find all the letters of my name, then trying to find the “hard” letters like Q, X, and Z. It was a good way to get to know the area, wandering through all the streets when the shops were closed to try to find a new letter. A lot of websites discuss Eine and his alphabet, but not a single one mentions the thing that I think explains their appeal: these letters on square shutters look like children’s alphabet blocks.
