via CatSalad
“Graffiti on a support wall under an overpass that reads:
“‘What kind of paint are you using to paint over this? Because if it is latex, it’s probably way too cold for it. You want good adhesion, you need like at least 40°-45°. Maybe wait till it warms up a little. I mean, what’s the big rush? Like, I’m in a rush now, but our situations are different.’
“You can tell from the photo that previous graffiti was painted over many time with slightly different colors of grey with the latest cover up (that was written over with the above text) showing bubbles and ripples in the paint from using the wrong paint at the wrong temperature.”
Especially something that shows so little understanding for how street artists develop. Yeah, I don’t think this comm should regularly see low effort early efforts, but if we act judgemental about the stuff people do when they’re starting out, we’re gate keeping people from making tags, improving their scouting, working faster, coming up with new ideas, and eventually doing something truly groundbreaking.
Cornbread, Daze, Dondi, Tracy 168, Lady Pink, and SAMO all started out with tagging, and some of their most famous works remained tags. If we diminish the value of tagging as part of the street art community, we’re just… Killing the street art community.