‘Always the same’, according to my now rusty Spanish – and one of the more memorable slogans I saw during my time in the Argentinian capital. I particularly like the sign-off – a bank face (two dots and a straight line) above a dollar sign and doubling up, no doubt, as the initials TS – presumably the dauber’s.

There was an interesting creative tension in Buenos Aires – which manifested itself through the various magazines, flyers and media I encountered – between sloganeering, traditional spray-can graffiti and stencilling. Stencilling seemed to be on the way out – considered a fad from last year, not really the true habitation of real artists and a pale imitation of what graffiti should be about. Much more snobbish than London really, where Banksy is held up in an excess of esteem and the who tagging/spraycan thing sometimes seems a little dated.

But then Buenos Aires is way cooler than London in many ways. It has the urban squalor, desperation and disorganisation that London tamed long ago. Plus it’s still so close to the atrocities of the Guerra Sucia and there’s still a lot of anger about that and the handling of the peso devaluation at the start of the decade.

Something else nice about this – the texture of the brick. I’ve just looked at the full size image and it’s interesting how the slogan becomes more poignant against this rugged and hard wearing wall.