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Christo Valkov's avatar

I appreciate and mostly agree with your idealistic vision. But it also comes from privilege. You have clearly never lived in the ghetto. You have never found your car scribed all over. Or your garage tagged up. Unfortunately lots of tagging and graffiti does occupy private, spiritual and natural space. Yes it may be saying: "Here I am, acknowledge me!" But it also often stands for "turf" or "tribe" marking, perpetuating violence, toxic masculinity, disrespect of property, personal achievement and just about everything and anything that can be disrespected for the sake of bad ass-ness or one upping your peers, etc. It is another complex layer of society that can be viewed in many different ways.

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Panda's avatar

That bridge photo popped up in my twitter feed last week and I spent a while looking at it trying to figure out which was supposed to be the 'non beautiful' one and then I had flashbacks to White Dudes™ in art school and kept on scrolling. Kudos to you for writing through it.

Also, I love that someone loves the illegible underpass tags.

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