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Having lived on both coasts, I have witnessed graffiti on fences, walls, subway cars, both freight and commuter cars, on the apartment building in NYC as a kid living w/ my parents, and much later on a neighbor's house, fences,commercial buildings and houses of worship in my immediate neighborhood in a quiet community in Orange County, CA. Most of it was gang related, often racist, angry, obscene, or "anti-establishment ". Was some of it of artistic merit? From a technical skill level, use of color, and ability to express emotion or convey a message it could qualify as art. However, I was raised to respect not only the property of other individuals, but that of corporations(incl. railroads), and that which is in the public domain. How would you feel if graffiti, no matter how well it was executed, graced the side of your home or businees, the side of your car, etc.? On a block wall at the end of the street where I lived in CA , one of these 'mis-guided artists" spray painted a picture of an extremely huge ***, and every time my 12 yr old daughter waited for the school bus she had to stand within 20 feet of it. It took several of us an entire day to get the graffiti off and repaint that wall. If you've been to southern California the graffiti is spreading eveywhere like a plague. If you'd been in NYC in the '70s the graffiti on their subway system was so bad that you couldn't see out some of the windows-it was indicative of just how far society had sunk in those dark days for NYC. To condone such graffiti as acceptable, clever, or at least harmless, is unconscionable. I viewed the admittedly well executed 9/11 graffiti as a disturbing statement, and not a tribute to the horror of that day. To excuse the 'artist' for doing an illegal and disgraceful act, is not much different in principle than excusing crooked, but clever CEOs from making money because they're good at it. Does grafftti have a place in an 1/87 world? -If you want it realistic for a specific era and locale, yes. End of rant. . .
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