Just as some members get agitated by certain comments regarding mental health, the phrase 'Graffiti is not art' is equally as ignorant and irritating.

Not art?
http://img485.imagesha...85/6331/monkedh3.jpg

I agree that what we have here cannot considered art, but there are hundreds of thousands of artists in this world who's goal is to improve the visual appeal of a surface. You can get mad at graffiti writers for things like the picture here, but you would only be very wrong. These are not the same people who are out on the real streets throwing their names up.

I have seen very many beautiful decaying surfaces which should by all means remain in their natural fantastic states.

Looking at this and similar pictures, the people who painted this junk up are not graffiti artists. This work is too amature, or "toy", to be a graffiti artist's tagging. If you want to believe it or not, this is mostly done by Explorers who want to leave their names. In this picture, the only part that is true graff handstyle is the CKD at the top.