Generally I enjoy it, but there’s a lot of situations where I wish there was some sort of middleground between 
and 
Traincabs with windows covered make people feel so much more unsafe, since outside onlookers can’t see if something is happening inside.
I get sad when I see historical buildings with a bunch of tags on them. You might think that’s silly - I would imagine some do, since I’m personally cool with newer “uglier” buldings getting tagged. So if you feel like that about all buildings and can’t relate, try to take it to extreme examples: The pyramids with tags on them, terra-cotta soldiers with tags on them, cave paintings, nature reserves, animals… All of these have been tagged. If you find those apprehensive, then start from there and go as close to “pretty and old building” as you can get until you find it acceptable again. Hopefully you get where I’m coming from then.
I know graffiti and tagging is ancient - there’s 1000-year old tags in pompei (and on pyramids) but I think that’s a reductive argument. Our notion of history, culture, preservation and so on has changed a lot since the time of widespread slavery. Had the roman empire existed today, then I’d also be mad about a legionairy tagging the walls of Versailles.
On the other hand Brechts old theatre in Berlin, which used to be some big old royal theatre, has massive red X’s painted over the coat of arms that decorate the stage, and that’s cool as fuck. So it’s not something that can easily be categorized one way or the other.
But otherwise I love it. I love seeing the signs of an underground anti-authority art movement in the world around me. I love seeing the art. I love seeing how it develops. I love seeing advertisements covered. I love it when it’s pretty, I love it when it’s juvenile, I love it when it’s insightful, I love it when it’s political and I love it when it’s crude.
I wish there was some solution. I’d love to hear other peoples thoughts.
What does this mean.
Mural of a kingfisher on a wall: cool.
“Wigan Athletic tour 2017”: firing squad.
Question:
that’s not graff. some lady thought she could do art restoration and did not have the skill.
She created artwork on existing structures without asking permission. If it is okay to do that, there’s nothing wrong with what she did.
no. stop. art restoration is a different specific thing, she was not trying making original new art.
Thats not the point. The point is if it is okay to do art on public property without asking permission for everyone then she didnt do anything wrong. She was also explicitly trying to stay in keeping with existing aesthetics and was a user of the space
Art restoration cannot be totally separated from art creation. You can’t say everyone can make art, but only some can iterate on it.
the problem here is that she did a bad job not that she wasn’t authorized. if she had done a good job some liberals would be mad she didn’t do the paperwork and it might not have even made international news.
So you should only be allowed to engage with art if youre good at it.