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Art - The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty

I am not a graffiti artist, but I find myself inspired by many aspects of graffiti art. Some seek fame, others beautify their gray surroundings, everyone has their own motives. The law will have you believe that all graffiti artists are gang members.

Gang - three or more individuals engaged in an illegal activity.

Some gangs may write graffs, but in each and every signature, weather written on a legal document or on a wall, lies a personal relationship with ones identity and a way to express that innate impulse to be unique, to be recognized. I see in graffiti artists' efforts a discipline of art in its purest form. If graffiti artists painted on canvasses, they'd be regarded as artists. What could be a more unadulterated form of art than creating imagery for self gratification, not profit?

Why do I spend endless hours hunting, recording, assembling and posting graffs? Its a simple devotion to preserving, often short-lived, displays of public art. Many graffs live for just a few days before they are painted over. Even those that endure are often only seen in passing, as they hang suspended on the cold surface of the urban sprawl. Bare concrete, lifeless brick and mortar, asphalt paved and chainlinked environments drown every inch of civilization with an oppressive blanket of dullness. Very few things in life bring us the simple pleasure of beauty like art does. I aim to help legitimize graffiti as an artform

As an artist, the inventive style and bold use of color of each design appeals to me most. The clever use of existing structural colorings, writing on immediate surroundings, displaying the form of each declaration in obscure distortions of shape and imagination, to state a universal call, to record your current state of being... All of this demonstrates to me a raw form of primal artistry that has driven the soul of humans since we could write.

-- Joseph, 5150 Bombrz

 

 

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