How Graffiti Divides My Town
posted on 13 August 2010 | posted in
Arts and Entertainment
In my experience, graffiti has been a hard topic to talk about in a good light among anyone who lives in the small Midwestern city of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Though I have never participated in the style of street graffiti, and have never wanted to as I think it ruins the beauty someone may have intended to create in the beginning, I have done graffiti for my friends, and for myself in my own home, and my personal here is Banksy. The style that graffiti provides can send vivid messages, hidden to the average city dweller. Some graffiti includes gang signs, and violence, but others provide a mural to look at, a remembrance of a lost friend, or family member. The graffiti that I have done has been anything from designing a room in a friend’s house to add some life to the room, to the mural side of the late Bob Marley. I enjoy painting, drawing, and spray painting, and graffiti is a great way to express this. It is not the traditional look of paintings in the home that are clean cut and "pretty", but they provide depth to a room or wall, and provide a story when they are though out, and have a lot of hard work and dedication put into them.
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