But isn't it the colour of those ordinary, banal, human comments that brings a place alive? Joe Bloggs did scribble on walls as far back as man can go. Why do we/they do it? Who knows.
But isn't it poignant when a soldiers name is found etched on a wall at a battle ground? A lovers heart on a tree? The hearts on the wall at the embankment for loved ones lost?
Why is it acceptable for Trajan or Rameses (I, II & III) to build a monument to the glory of their name - and for leaders al over the world to say 'I woz 'ere' in various statues and images (and that's history), but Joe Bloggs carving his name in the pyramids during the Napoleoonic wars is graffiti? Isn't it all 'I woz 'ere'?
Didn't Leroy (well, Kilroy) become so famous that I was still doodling a wall and Chad on my (self covered) schoolbooks?
You say graffiti, I say graffiti, let's call the whole thing off......
Some of you really do want to live in a grey world. Some of the graffiti around Sheffield is truly amazing and considerably improves sites of industrial decay.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Some of you really do want to live in a grey world. Some of the graffiti around Sheffield is truly amazing and considerably improves sites of industrial decay.
All the 'artists' need to do is get permission from the property owner before doing their work. Then there is no problem.
I don't care what people I, but if he painted his graffiti on the side of my house, I'd paint over it, no matter how much someone might offer to pay for it.
For every piece of 'art' sprayed by graffiti artists there are thousands of tags. Would supporters of graffiti be happy to have their property spray tagged? if not, how do you define the point where vandalism becomes art?
For every piece of 'art' sprayed by graffiti artists there are thousands of tags. Would supporters of graffiti be happy to have their property spray tagged? if not, how do you define the point where vandalism becomes art?
when someone is prepared to pay handsomely to remove it and make good any damage?
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When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
All the 'artists' need to do is get permission from the property owner before doing their work. Then there is no problem.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/banksy-wall-removal-shop-lowestoft-b1958689.html
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Under those circumstances, I'd definitely repaint over it. I don't want my house making a political statement!! 😇
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.