A case of cause and effect perhaps?
Our children observe a world filled with advertising and emulate it in their graffiti. Are they responsible for not understanding that only certain people can dump branding on certain walls? Advertising is branding and expression of the company. Graffiti is self-branding and self-expression of the individual. Does that make it wrong?
The bit about graffiti as self-branding invoked a random, and not entirely rational, thought while reading this. If advertisers can pay someone for the use of a certain wall-space to place their ads, why couldn’t graffiti artists do the same?
I realise there’s certain cost verses return-on-investment issues to overcome, but so long as the wall-space owner is making money from their wall real estate, does it matter to them, within reason, what appears there?
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