Graffiti (and other forms of urban art) has its own beauty, as does the city in which the art finds itself. It takes the form of an ongoing conversation. It is an expression of the city which lives and breathes: discovering, erasing and editing its opinions as its inhabitants discover, erase and edit their own.
This artistic expression is organic and so is its reception, especially as it is part of the public domain.
(quoting Alex van Tonder)
"I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself - that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips;
and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself" (Claus Oldenburg)
St Jacob on cnr Empire and Jan Smuts.
