These articles discussed graffiti as a gateway to accessing culture and the female representations in art and culture. Ralph and Smith begin by discussing how graffiti brings community together through rejecting aspects of culture, such as hate speech. Aboriginal graffiti is the same as all other subgroups of graffiti. People still create it out of boredom and use it as a marking of presence. Graffiti is a public documenter. It is universally common to write “i was here”. This is a marking of culture. I also thought about this a lot when thinking about my capstone. Marking presence on a wall turns that wall into a social object. Graffiti also serves as a distraction. Inserting a textual message into plain sight forces you to read it. In a modern context, this is similar to billboard on a highway or political posters in front of houses. John Lennon begins to criticize the popularity of contemporary graffiti artists, especially the rise of Banksy and the way his work is interpreted. Is Banksy’s work only interpreted differently because Banksy is famous, or is there something different about his work?
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