Today's Walk

Comments

[dale]

:-) Makes me happy to see it again.

[Mouse]

Hi Beth
I've been studying graffiti as an art form in my English class, previously I saw it as vandalism, now I see it as an expression. Interesting how education opens up the mind and the eye

[leslee]

Nice urban pix! Everyone must be so happy to be outside and enjoying the spring.

[Eva]

Vandalism vs. expression - and would you be as happy about it if your home/front door/business/neighborhood was graffitied? Have you every had anything you worked hard on graffitid? I may be old fashioned but I see it as vandalism. People work hard to paint, build and maintain their homes and buildings.

[beth]

If it's possible to have two views at once, like Mouse, above, I see some graffiti as expression but would be very upset if it happened on a wall of my own. The "tagging" of the sort shown above is done by gangs, all over the city, but in relatively-non-violent Montreal, this is one of the worst manifestations of gang behavior for most citizens, and has little to do with the artistic, elaborate murals by real graffiti artists. I wish the taggers would confine themselves to abandoned buildings and public alleys and so forth, and leave people's private property alone. But that seems to be a losing proposition. It's a problem, and one I never really considered before living here. Having said that, I can't fail to notice the colors and changing landscape in my own urban neighborhood, and graffiti is part of that. The intention here is not to glorify it, but to include it.