Embodying free-hand expression in an era of technological precision, markers are entirely at the mercy of the user’s imagination. An instrument for visualizing abstract thought and recording stream-of-consciousness creative expression, the marker plays an indispensable role in inaugurating the moment in which an idea becomes tangible. Tied to a sense of graffiti-style mischief and playful, childlike irreverence, markers offer the ability to deface and redefine surfaces, arguably positioning it as an essential part of the subverter’s toolkit. With the urge to express something visually continues to be a fundamental part of any process whether artistic or not, markers offer an unparalleled sense of immediacy and permanence that has outlasted decades. While the act of committing pen to paper has achieved romanticized status with the rise of digital note-taking, markers are nonetheless upheld as an everyday essential that, in the authority it gives us to personalize and accentuate, functions as an extension of our person.