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Local street artist is at it again. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by to c/chat@hexbear.net
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I think this might be the same person who did this last time, it's very close to where I saw the last one. Which the city dealt with in a matter of days from when I saw it, so maybe this particular canvas of street art will also get cleaned/painted over.

(I'm not against street art - I'm rather fond of some of the prettier examples of it as an art form, and tagging is an interesting form of self expression - I just said that in that I'm curious how long it will take the city to do something about this tag, since the previous one I found on City property also caused it and nearby graffiti to be quickly cleaned when previously ignored, and graffiti on a trash receptacle is the ultimate "not worth cleaning".)

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[–] 41 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Tagging the ugliest most obnoxious monstrosities in our urban environments is a perfectly good form of artistic expression. Making those monstrosities stand out more for the ugliness they are by making them even uglier is a good way to highlight them.

A nice object doesn't attract tags.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Absolutely. I don't think I've seen a single dumpster in this city without at least one tag on it. They're garbage receptacles, sure, but do they have to be so ugly?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    how is a dumpster an obnoxious monstrosity

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  • [–] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    They're ugly as sin. So ugly that we don't even have them in the UK. The only places you'll ever see them are at the back of commercial and industrial lots. All residential rubbish is handled through wheelie bins, and since wheelie bins are the personal property of each individual household they're not tagged. They're also not on the street at any time other than the day they're collected, as opposed to dumpster monstrosities that sit there 24/7.

    That's not to say we don't have our own monstrosities that attract tagging. Ugly as fuck electrical boxes that exist ubiquitously everywhere are pretty commonly tagged.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    The dumpster here has wheels though, I'd assume it's just for a MFH or maybe a business.

    And then obvious follow up question: What do you want electrical boxes to look like?

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  • [–] 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    What do you want electrical boxes to look like?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    ah, right, I thought this was like a form factor issue

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago

    Form can probably be better too tbh. Exterior of the box could be more like a stone wall or something. Would fit better in Britain anyway. The sheet metal look isn't great.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Do people not paint these where your at? A town over from me pay local artists to paint them.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    My city has lots of painted electrival boxes like that, they do attract less tagging than plain ones and dumpsters.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (7 children)

    Taggers are dickheads who treat the world like they’re dogs marking their territory.

    A nice object doesn't attract tags.

    That is straight up bullshit

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  • [–] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    ”like theyre dogs marking their territory” wait until you open your first book of theory and learn that capitalist leaders do this and would even send YOU to die over it. get over yourself

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I have seen the discourse of taggers in my city many many times over the multiple decades. This is a place renowned for its laneway graffiti if that gives a clue.

    It is literally the culture to just tag your name in places to show you were there and take pride in that fact. It is not about being against the system other than some vague notion of being against the system.

    And they absolutely hate muralists.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    It is literally the culture to just tag your name in places to show you were there and take pride in that fact.

    Dope, that's cool enough for me. If rich bozos can throw their polluting corpses at the feet of everest, or the wreckage of the titanic, and expect to be applauded why can't some person tag the Bolte

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Humans are artistic people. Especially when it comes to community and show casing it. Through out history people have done everything they can to do art wherever they have been. Including what is now called tagging and graffiti.

    Its funny cause we don't consider it graffiti when its a archeological find from century ago. Some of the things that helped paint a picture of every day life. Did you know there is a viking runestone in Oklahoma? Sure sucks that ancient viking left that and dirty up the place huh?

    And you'll say "but this is different" how? Do you think random viking guy knew his random ass stuff would be consider a archeological gold mine? We never know what will be important like that in the future. Its literally all the same stuff the only difference is the when and how.

    Tagging is not something that is going to go away. moralizing it and policing it is not going to work. So its time to re examine it and figure when is it actually a problem and how to channel it in the correct ways.

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