This “artist” going around “correcting” graffiti into fucking times new roman might be the most pretentious, condescending upper class shit I have ever seen referred to as “art” and the aesthetics of it illicit a visceral revulsion in me
imo its a pretty cool, fun little thing. the whole point of graffiti is to be painted back over anyway.
That is literally not the point of graffiti but whatever you need to convince yourself that this isn’t uncool and steeped in racism.
Like as a teen I worked with other chicanx teens who did street art. We all met at school and did this as a way to express ourselves. There are actually a lot of places around my area where the businesses are cool with it and it’s like well known that you can go put up art on their walls. It’s like street art code not to go around putting your work up over other people’s work. You don’t go and cover it up with something you think is better. Like yeah some shit overlaps and some of it is tags upon tags but you don’t just take a bucket and cover up it in it’s entirety and put your own “better” shit up. Disrespectful.
Speaking for chicanx street work when I was a teen, it meant that our work was on public display. We weren’t in the art classes, we weren’t going to go to the fancy ass art school out here. We went out and gave ourselves exposure and expressed ourselves how we wanted. Don’t speak about “the whole point of graffiti,” when you clearly don’t know what it means.
This “artist” said this street art was ugly and unreadable to most people so he made it “better.” It’s disrespectful. Not everything is for him, or people like him. POC expressing themselves doesn’t have to be packaged nicely and accepted by people like this dipshit. Our art is valid.
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