Well I was playing basketball with a kid I look after at the local park and we noticed how someone had graffitied on the wall near by and scince it was kinda ugly, at a childrens park, and I had some extra white paint I decided to do a public service. (Before picture to the upper left) I've done this kinda thing before but I usually reserve my buffing for satanic, or offensive graffiti. Pentagrams nazi sybols and other junk like that.
But anyhoo I handed off the can to my young protege and proceeded to teach him some of the basics of can control while cleaning up the park he plays at. I know this peticular action of buffing is not condoned by the graffiti comunity but in my defence it was just some punk kid with no style who wrote "crazy man".
I don't know about my buffing or anti-bombing. I don't think I'm doing anything wrong but when your at a wall without technical permission with a can in your hand it looks kinda bad so I have this tendancy to watch my back and look around. "Avoiding the appearance of evil" comes to mind. Is what I'm doing wrong? Is it wrong to upset satanic racist kids with spaypaint? Should I just leave it alone? Is spraypainting anything without permission wrong even if it's probibly what the owner/city wants? What do you guys think?
I think I won't do anymore anti-bombing until I get an answer that I can sleep tight with. - goodnight
7 comments:
It seems to me like you answered your own question. Good old conscience...
I think it is dangerous to assume what other people want, better to ask. It is possible (though unlikely) that the satanic racist kid with the spray paint actually owns the building and wants that there. I don't know from experience, but I'd think that getting permission to clean up offensive graffiti wouldn't be that hard, especially when dealing with privately owned property. Better safe than arrested.
ok, thanks guys I respect you both in different ways so I'm gonna quit. No more buffing for me. Although it is suprizingly hard to get permission for, so many people have given me the run around just so I could buff a satanic scribble. It's just not worth it sometimes.
hmmm... although i kinda agree with y'all... it's sad, because then where is there room in this world for random acts of kindness and betterment of our world.
I know i have, on my walk home from school before, pulled out a white-out pen from my bag and eliminated some unnecessary apostrophes from construction signs on the road. Hehe. i felt so good afterwards.
Go Literacy!
I don't see graffiti nessisarily as a bad thing. I even like to see it as I walk through the streets. I also realize I'm in the minority, and so I figured that I would help everyone else out by cleaning things up. But things like covering up the public displays of the human affliction (sin)is not the reason why I was put on this earth. I am here to proclaim the good news and that should be my only focus. Other things like buffing graffiti only serve as distractions to what I'm trying to accomplish. I was listening to alistar begg (sp?) the other day. He said something along the lines of "the fornicator will not close his pornography store because of complaints, the doctor will not stop performing abortions because of protesters, sin will not cease because there are legislations against it. The only real lasting change occurs when the "sinner" accepts that they are loved completely by God and inspite of all thier imperfections is made whole through his grace. And the gratitude for that love propells them to act it out in thier daily life." I gotta stop worrying about what's "right" and start worrying about what's really important.
It's also nice to know you guys still care enough to read this thing, thanks.
Yeah, I'm not too excited about the idea of buffing because something is crappy. I mean, where do you draw the line? Might a pro look on your stuff as crappy and buff it?
Buffing something because it is bad is a whole different thing. Go for it I say.
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