Keeping Track: The Political Railway Graffiti of IMPEACH

Minnesota-based graffiti artist IMPEACH has created "an entirely new art form," says curator and activist Josh MacPhee: "behemoth metal broadsheets, tracking news across North America." IMPEACH's freight train graffiti ranges from the overtly political—referencing bailouts, austerity, and torture—to the more poetic ("Gratitude," "Witness"). Interviewed in Minneapolis for a piece commissioned by re:form, IMPEACH told me that while his aim is to change minds, political railway graffiti is also a form of therapy. "Trains," he says, "they go, so I don't have to live with it. I got that idea out. I said it to somebody. It's out there, and I can move on."

Read more about "middle America's graffiti troubadour" at Medium's design site, re:form, published March 15, 2015.