sin
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The contentious relationship betwee Graff & Street Art , by sin on Sept 26, 2014 19:00:32 GMT 1, As we've worked on our project in Miami this conversation pops up from time to time. Personally, as a collector, someone who lived in a squat with graffiti writers, artists, poets, etc, I've never felt there was a barrier on the creative side. Clearly, there is some faction that sees a clear segmentation between the graffiti world and the street art world and oddly enough the lines as you get closer to the middle become rather arbitrary.
I've reduced this down to people having a bit of an illness, not being able to think outside of the immediate, not being able to look at the wider community. I equate it to the reality of living in a place like the domonican republic, or other immediate living societies. Many people in the DR dont have refrigerators and because of this they buy food and supplies for that day, they dont buy food for a week or longer like most of us on here do. Likewise graffiti writers that I have been speaking with, who dont like artists who are from out of town, or who dont write graff, or who write graff but arent writing graff on this wall, view the wider community through a tight scope because of the environment they exist in and that environment is largely a local driven society. My street, my town, my crew, my wall vs the world as a global canvas.
Interested to hear other peoples thoughts on the topic, mostly interested in well thought out competing opinions vs agreement with my own view on the topic.
As we've worked on our project in Miami this conversation pops up from time to time. Personally, as a collector, someone who lived in a squat with graffiti writers, artists, poets, etc, I've never felt there was a barrier on the creative side. Clearly, there is some faction that sees a clear segmentation between the graffiti world and the street art world and oddly enough the lines as you get closer to the middle become rather arbitrary.
I've reduced this down to people having a bit of an illness, not being able to think outside of the immediate, not being able to look at the wider community. I equate it to the reality of living in a place like the domonican republic, or other immediate living societies. Many people in the DR dont have refrigerators and because of this they buy food and supplies for that day, they dont buy food for a week or longer like most of us on here do. Likewise graffiti writers that I have been speaking with, who dont like artists who are from out of town, or who dont write graff, or who write graff but arent writing graff on this wall, view the wider community through a tight scope because of the environment they exist in and that environment is largely a local driven society. My street, my town, my crew, my wall vs the world as a global canvas.
Interested to hear other peoples thoughts on the topic, mostly interested in well thought out competing opinions vs agreement with my own view on the topic.
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