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Crime of Art

Katie Jones, Staff Writer
May 23, 2012
Filed under Features

Graffiti has been around since before the Romans conquered the towns and were able to write on the walls of the buildings. Even back then the Romans called graffiti, graffiti. Over the years and different stages of life, the view of graffiti has changed and in time it will keep on changing. Graffiti is everywhere you look, any type of drawing or writing on the walls or any surface is graffiti.

Some people find it art, but others find it as vandalism and trespassing. Some graffiti that is famous that you see in magazines and the papers take place more in bigger cities like New York City, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles.

Every graffiti artist has a fake name. Even this graffiti artist named “Posh”. Posh started to write Graffiti when he was nine years old. “I started when I was shaked up in Santa Barbara. A friend of mine had spray can art and subway art on his bookshelf. I took a peek, liked what I saw, and he broke down writing to me. I didn’t know anything about it at the time, except what I saw on the walls in L.A. He wrote ‘Cisco’.

Posh went on. “He gave me the basics… but that was about it. The first ‘real’ writer I met from L.A. were Clae BC Crew and Kex also BC Crew. Clae got up and always got the best spots in Santa Barbara. Kex taught me how to make a ‘stencil tip’ long before I could ever use one.”
Graffiti has been around forever and will always be beautiful to artists, not a crime.