Re: PICHAÇÃO
i think the point being made by the author of the original article is the point being missed by the majority of the people commenting on this thread...and its a problem that re-occurs through all avenues of life due to a lost handle on why we do any of this stuff, which comes naturally from our hearts and minds...
cave men starting writing in caves, not so in 2007, we can make museums out of them and charge $15 a head to view them, but as a sign of communication because they could not speak... then the cave man began making more constructed sounds and pointing and these sounds became more and more like words and then the words spread like wildfire and seperated into languages
. so the brazilian writers are just rocking out this crazy raw, pure art because this is what they know how to share and we are like the museum builders charging admission... "oh wellll, this means this, or this means that." i am not belittling brazil or calling them primitive people but this graffiti in essence is primitive and RAW!!! which is refreshing, no?!!!
communication is, as a human being, one of our most important tools. it lets us know we arent alone, it lets others know they arent alone. it is a primal urge. (more forgotten gems we can talk about some other time)
this is why all cultures prior to western domination have these re-occuring qualities. language, tattooing, shamans, values, places of worship,ceremonies, these are primal urges that are inherint in every one of us. its is part of our makeup, it is in every piece of DNA. without the interuption of greed, jealousy, mtv, fox news, your neighbor's car, worrying about your weight, these things prosper.
when they are interrupted is when they slowly start to die. i, as a westerner, am part of that, but i realize it and would like to change my people being a blackhole where culture goes to die.because my people will see this as a chance at profit, something marketable, or ridiculeable.
classic saying DO NOT JUDGE WHAT YOU DONT UNDERSTAND.
so every time someone says "oh this looks like *insert graffiti lingo here*" you are subscribing to the mindset that destroys these cultures. you have become so dethached from what it was inside of you that made you want to write graffiti in the first place that all you can see are your own comapreable realities. you are lost brothers. come back home. dont be fast to judge. only judge what isnt truly from the heart. signing out . one.
