Graffiti Impressions as a New York City Native
posted on 3 March 2011 | posted in
Arts and Entertainment
I am 28 years old. When I was a child, every train car in the subway system of New York City was covered top to bottom with graffiti. Many of the adults seemed to think this was a big problem, but I loved it. I thought it was fantastic that art was everywhere, and free, unchained art at that. One day a resolution passed where all the cars would be cleaned and there was a major crackdown on graffiti in the subways. It was sad. Nowadays, instead of fantastic murals of art, you get the occasional marker drawing of a penis or some curse words. It's pathetic. Where's the American Banksy for example? It's all low brow stuff.
In trying to clean the city, it made the graffiti much worse. In the tunnels is a different story. In the train tunnels the truly brave artists still venture to paint their pictures. Looking out a subway car window you can see names, murals, and long stories told by creatures of New York City's night. Here's to the driven artists that still do this. Some of us think you're doing the right thing.
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