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Question of the day:
if it is this pretty, is
it still graffiti?
Dallas, Texas
photographed 4.14.2018
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Who made it? A vandal? An artist? The answer to that lies in intention.
Or an artist/vandal? Or a vandal/artist?
Like you said…
I like graffiti lots, most of the time, when pained on suitable walls and not on private people’s houses.
I like graffiti as well!
A few years ago, on a photography class, a few of us were walking down an alley in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and came upon a beautiful graffiti mural on the back of a building. Then the man who’d painted it walked out, and we had a chat. We asked if we could take his photo; he declined, saying, “I had permission to paint this, but the others…”