Readers who wish to acquaint themselves with the actual politics of graffiti, as opposed to narcissistic posturing, could start with the essays of Heather MacDonald, whose grasp of the subject – and of its defenders’ colossal hypocrisy – is both precise and entertaining. Those pressed for time may simply note the following comment by an unorthodox Guardian reader…
This new mentality of social morality as opposed to personel ethics has allowed slavery to make a come back. I guess human bondage is okay for the Planet.
So apparently is FGM, Murdering infants, theft, not allowing self defense or hard work.
I could go on but most know the train wreck where now in because of the secular Humanists mania for control, & hate for any true individual responsability.
There is no right or wrong, just fairy dust fads of the moment. Universal truths! Yeah gots to be kidding.
opps wrong thread. Sorry!
After looking at about 10 works of graffiti I realized that I’ve seen them all. Boring, repetitive & unoriginal.
From the Heather McDonald piece re: Museum of Contemporary Art and their graffiti “exhibit”: “Nice museum ya got here. Shame if something would… happen… to it.”
Purposely defacing public or private property is a crime and not an expression of “art”. People who commit crimes are criminals and should be treated as such. And lets not confuse graffiti with those 3D chalk works drawn on sidewalks or making hop scotch squares.
Go to the offending graffiti “artist’s” “home” and spray paint his computer, i-POD, cell phone and TV. Tell him to “relax”, that your graffiti is simply “Street art”. Go back the next day and do it again.
A taste of one’s own medicine and such.
Graffiti ‘artists’ can use their cell walls for a canvas