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“Graffiti will supersede all attempts to obliterate it.”
Since the 1970s, graffiti art has been the bane of North American cities. Solutions have been proposed and enacted, and programs and laws have been set up to prevent young people from getting involved with graffiti. Still, graffiti persists, and it’s becoming a more and more romanticized art form.
In a society obsessed with money, many don’t understand graffiti art and view it as an ultimately unprofitable endeavour. Galleries can’t sell it and patrons can’t buy it. Work goes up and comes down, sometimes overnight. Paint applied to trains rolls away, likely never to be seen again by the artist. Graffiti is concealed by night and fades in the sun. Sometimes it’s blown to bits by removal teams.
Graffiti is misunderstood, misread and mistaken as ignorant, but it still continues – literally backed against the wall by public perceptions of safety and people concerned with maintaining property values.