NZL-Graffiti

Graffiti

Graffiti is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.

Graffiti comes in a variety of different forms. Although graffiti is illegal, many people still do it even though they know the consequences of what could happen if they get caught. If someone is caught committing graffiti then they can be arrested, prosecuted, fined and even be sentenced to jail. The most common reason for graffiti is because people feel like their lives are dull and pointless and with this in the lives it could add a bit of colour.

Graffiti to graffiti artist is like an urge of adrenaline that they have to respond to otherwise they have this guilt feeling.Graffiti can be interpreted in many different ways. To some people graffiti is a way of expression and to others graffiti is vandalism.

Graffiti in all sorts of places is starting to become a job for some people due to the sheer look of it. Different graffiti artists have been hired to create pieces of graffiti that would/has been sold for thousands of dollars. In London, graffiti is one of the most popular tourist attractions. Graffiti art has entered the Mainstream market in some places and has started to sell globally. Services like galleries, advertising, fashion, film, television and high street retailers are more than happy to take from this culture and make a profit off of it.

Internationally acclaimed, multi-millionaire graffiti artist Banksy has set a life for himself with graffiti. He chose a risky path to take and it paid of. Now he’s a famous graffiti artist that everyone should know about. Obviously other artists weren’t so lucky. Since graffiti is accounted for as an act of vandalism and sometimes trespassing(depending on where the graffiti is based), a lot of street artist have been arrested, prosecuted or put in jail for doing graffiti. I personally think that graffiti isn’t that bad, it’s a very creative of expressing our thoughts but sometimes graffiti can be bad. By bad I mean put downs, cussing and sometimes nudity. There are different types of artist in the world. Ones with a dream and ones who do it as a joke.

I don’t really think graffiti is that bad. I am probably 50/50 about this.

The government’s point of view on graffiti is a good and bad one.

The bad part about this is that different government’s have to shell out a quarter of a million dollars every year to get rid of all the graffiti. Sometimes the government pays talented graffiti artist’s to paint a picture or a collage to represent something in the city.

The government is thinking of shrinking the “ban” for graffiti. They are thinking of making a specific area for graffiti. The most common idea that they are thinking about is adjusting the punishment for graffiti because there is a lot more “bad” graffiti than there is “good” graffiti around.

I personally don’t care about what they do about graffiti but I do care about if they punish the right people. Even though they might raise the punishment, we all know that there will always be a bit of tagging now and then.

My overall opinion on graffiti is that it’s not bad but it’s not good either but I don’t really care what happens because it makes me laugh when I see it.