graffiti to me is alot of things, a disstorted view of fame, a large community where one can be either accepted by one group, or hated by another, a hobbie where one always has a goal to reach, and a rush on top of all of that. graffiti is a huge scene. and lots of people do it. but very few people share opinions on it. it all comes down to personal opinion.
when you write your name or word or whatever you wanna call it, on that bathroom door at the local gass station then every person who goes in that door then see's that word on they're way out. everytime you hit a freeway shot then every passenger and some drivers who are looking that way see it. everything you do, little handstyles to huge mural peices is seen by some one. and then every person who see's these things now knows that you are out there, they have seen that word. that person "knows that writer" but do they really know the person who writes that word? why is it that we are willing to risk jail to have someone know our "word" yet never know who it is. do we really recieve the fame? or does our word just always live as just a word. (just some things to ponder)
in graffiti a big playing part is crew and the people you roll with. and like in all things with crews and seperation comes fighting. crews are always beefing, most of the time its because two guys from two different places didnt like each other so then both crews were called. one might call this a war, in graff most the time a war is never won. it will be fought until one or another gives up. what is it that makes us do this? what if graffiti was just a community. one big crew (that prob sounds lame) then the community would have less things to frown at us about. a person walking down the street see's a tag on a fence. there opinion may differ but he just continues walking. the next week he walks by that same fence and the entire fence is covered in crossed out tags. now the chances of this person looking at this fence and saying that he/she somewhat liked the way it looked is much higher when it was just one ledgible tag. in the end i think that its odd that so many people are joining graff, kids esspecially when you have such a high chance of being hated as a writer from the day you start. graff could be a very big movement with a very big message if we all werent so busy trying to go over someone else's shit.
more to come