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san diego graffiti
Graffiti is something that society looks at as a symbol of urban decay. Others look at it as something that brings color to our world. While some love the colorful art and complex designs but hate the scribble they see on the city streets, signs and electric boxes. This article is open to new opinions and ideas on what they believe graffiti is all about. San Diego a city of beautiful beaches, sunny skies and its pockets in which the art of graffiti flourishes. A city that lets a great deal of art into its society but also a city that harshly pushes away a type of art that has been looked down upon by America since the seventies. The San Diego graffiti scene is relatively friendly and writers from all different cultural and financial backgrounds try to keep the community tight and alive. Writers in San Diego aren’t gang members but simply artists with a similar goal, to get up. It’s not like the LA graffiti scene in which its so large and violent where the writers are mixed in with gang bangers. The scene in San Diego is smaller and at a good level. A writer can get noticed a lot more easily here but there is still a handful of writers that get up intensely that everyone knows. San Diego writers main beef or enemy is the buff. A writer could spend hours working an amazing piece in a relatively low key spot and expect to have it buffed by the city or community in a few days to a week. This is something that San Diego writers deal with, what they do is just to keep hitting the city hard and nonstop. It’s like a war between graffiti and the city, sometimes the city is winning keeping it all cleaned up and sometimes the artists are winning keeping San Diego full of color. It happens in bursts when one writer goes out and gets his name up more writers follow and there names up in the same areas and once this graffiti gets to a certain level through the city, they go in and clean up very large sections all at once.