These selected works are based on ship graffiti that I copied from the walls of one building: the ruined church of St. George of the Greeks in Famagusta, Cyprus. The graffiti, dating from c.1570 to 1920, have attracted a relatively good amount of scholarly attention. I recorded all that I could reach using the technique of frottage, or rubbing (see below) and from there I transposed the images into other media. The ships are represented at actual size and unmodified – except in their being translated from the plaster wall. My approach was slightly different in the animation Leaving the Harbour of Haloes where I let the appearance of each graffito help me interpret the direction, distance and momentum of the ships. These works explore general themes that pertain to most graffiti studies: the ambiguity that results from transposition into different media, content (meaning) and the passage of time, and the effects of displacing graffiti from their origins in specific places.