Crown Berger wrote:@ Ric dees. There is no question about the talent some of these graffiti creators posses. What lots of people hate about their chosen medium of expression, is the permanency, the way it defaces private property and the way goons have taken to spraying walls in support of one politician or another
I think graffiti can be authorized for public social campaigns (like in the war against HIV or corruption)for limited periods.
The acquisition of private property is by itself an act of 'vandalism' because it is an 'unsolicitated' act of will in an environment that no one actuall owns.
If one erects a form in such a context, then the form is assimilated into space, and no one owns this space . . . unless one wishes to deny his fellow beings freedom.
The private property is under the law of public experience, and one should not worry so much about the content of graffiti on his wall. Hiding it is repression, a limititation of human growth.