Graffiti

Each artist describes the rush of energy, the high, he experiences from every sketch. These people are not only doing something illegal, but they are also getting their ideas out there for the public to see--whether the public wants to see it or not. It's a game to these artists to see who can hit the most trains, subways, and building walls. MICO describes it as a guerrilla war in the beginning because it's a mystery as to how/when the artists strike, where they can paint their signatures, lettering, and cartoon characters. If you look around, there's still a lot of graffiti today--on city buildings, on buses, on high way rocks. Up till now, I've always thought that graffiti was just the doodling of kids who thought it'd be cool to have their name written on a public surface...but I was ignorant. Now I realize from these two readings that it is so much more than that. These people are breaking barriers, sending out messages. It is art, and they dont even want the recognition for it because their real names are really never exposed.