Comment 70917

By valour (registered) - website | Posted October 26, 2011 at 19:47:27

I hate to call you out, but this article totally misses the point. Good intentions, but way off.

I may have emptied a can or two in my younger years, but I was certainly not "uniting my fragmented parts of self".

I was painting cool shit on ugly ass walls to make people the next morning wonder how someone pulled it off. I was painting to put up a piece better than the ones I had done before. I painted to give people something new to see on their shitty daily commute. I was painting to get better, and to prove I was.

I couldn't build a park, pave a road or build a skyscraper. but I could paint. My contribution to the landscape.

And it made my mom damn proud to see a piece I did on her way to work.

I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours, at home drawing painting and planning. I didn't just grab a can and write fuck the pigs.

There was graffiti long before their were starbucks, office towers and Business casual. It is part of the urban landscape. If you don't like the tags get a can of paint and express yourself.

And thanks for the Banksy pic hammer, don't think I have seen that one before.

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