December 6, 2017
“OUT OF SIGHT”
By Tristan Eaton
In 1826 Borås, Sweden saw its first printing company open, and soon after the city had its first journal, and the local dependency on news was established—only interrupted for a week when the town burned to the ground a year later. Eventually becoming the Borås Tidning in 1938, and transitioning to a daily in 1949 the local paper has witnessed the rise and fall of newspaper circulations everywhere, but while its down almost a third from its peak of more than 60,000 and the format has seen some changes, it marches on. In 2015 Los Angeles street art icon Tristan Eaton was in Borås for the No Limit festival, and painted this mashup of different images in what Upper Playground refers to as “his signature patchwork imagery” on the side of the Borås Tidning offices at Allégatan and Fabriksgatan. @tristaneaton @borastidning @nolimitboras
