I bomb graffiti on the tomb of nefertiti

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I begin this blog with graffiti cuz i was thinkin about it today - so it gets to begin it.

We'll get to all of it.


Graffiti i associate with the north direction. earth, mind, HH interacting with the physical world surrounding. painting on stuff, you get that.

see, cuz yes, it's even a "popularly held notion" that graff is like a commentary on the blight of industrialization n shit. most people already get that it is not some slapshot at self-aggrandizement. graff aint ego games. graff is the expression of a deep-seated (/seeded/ceded) spiritual esteem (/awareness/consciousness) - watch as it glides thru the city.

your community is treated like it's a cemetery - but - oh! - someone's alive, aint they? cuz look at what they did to the train.

but "all you see is crime in the city". but that's what birthed graff.


however, it's more. it is ALSO the process of people modeling a way of seeing and a BETTER way of life. it's HH saying " these structures we have, this cityscape - it needs beautification. it needs humanity invested in it. we will do what we can."

graff is not meant to demean - even if it used as medicine for psychic wounds (what someone might wanna call "defacing" or whatever, like if it's just 400 throwups on 2 blocks), that is in itself a political and social commentary. it's the cry for help as a social bookmark. it's a kid up late alone at night just putting his name on shit.
isn't the opportunity afforded him as within this or that part of our single gene pool challenging enough, rigorous enough, that he can be engaged in other ways? don't he got an art class - prolly not. "baby, stop sellin crack! go home!" there is a pain, a uniquely "American" loneliness, isolation. it's steinbeck, hemingway. probably faulkner or something.


art is a study of life, is visions. - and today it's very obvious. we have not turned all of that limitless energy and attention to 3 fundamental problems: poverty, economic exploitation, and militarism .

that is just about a quote from dr. king. i read recently the nobel acceptance speech.


graff -



so, i been doing paintings. and one of the things i've told some people is that certain paintings i wish people would paint on - whoever has em.

n i was sayin how it's like takin abstract art's gift of the story to the viewer, and going beyond, to empowering/reminding as storyteller and storycreator.

the "you da god, god" principle. an exercise of our very real potential as 2007ites.

graff. it's involvement. it's a call to action. it's creation right on death's door - beauty on brawn. from communities largely ignored, while still being targeted for extinction.

so i urge you, paint on your Self.
paint on democracy.
paint on the trains.
paint on the page.
paint on ya face.

of course, graff is more and less than this.

i'm just sayin.