Comments on: Scratch & Dissent

By: Casey Hamilton

Casey Hamilton — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:16:59 +0000

A first reading a month ago, then distracted by more genuine chaos and murder of our young, now some relative calm to reread your blog. Thank you for your so thorough analysis changing at least a little my feelings about graffiti. It is good to be reminded of the sidewalk chalk drawings of Europe and to learn of the Yale graduate program of projecting a message on the side of a building. Inspiration from early Batman comics with the Batsymble projected on the clouds above Gotham?

By: Jane Watkins

Jane Watkins — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:02:47 +0000

I consider graffiti folk art and like Bansky, wish it were legal. Thank you Martha. Xo jane

By: Atussa

Atussa — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 21:12:22 +0000

I don't know why, but graffiti has never been an art form that intrigued me. Until now. In reading your blog I have a new-found appreciation for wall scratching, and think it would be interesting to plan an entire trip around seeing the variety of such art throughout a couple continents. I have always loved the "street painters" of Europe, who transform cobblestone streets into something so magnificent you don't dare step foot over it. And then the rains come and dissolve all that attention to detail and color and form; erasing the history and the story. Thank you, Martha, for awakening my curiosity and for introducing me to Le Guin.