Finishing the Job
One of the things that I’ve had to get used to in the 3+ years I’ve now lived in Los Angeles is the concept of tagging. While some are inclined to call it art, I am typically less so inclined. There have been numerous occasions when I’ve arrived at school in the morning to find spray-painted graffiti on the outsides of walls, buildings, stairwells, and even defacing some of our school murals. And although I’ve never experienced this myself, I’ve heard first-hand horror stories from some of my teacher friends about them returning to their room after a holiday or a sick day to find it all tagged up. Even the Mosaic truck, which we use to haul equipment to and from the various venues on Sundays is a target for taggers. Slowly, over the course of the past ten weeks, I’ve noticed that the truck arrives at the Mayan each week with more and more black, spray painted graffiti on the side.
Anyway, upon arriving at the Mayan last night, I found that some folks came up with a creative solution! Instead of trying to erase or clean the tagging, the truck was parked in the center of the parking lot with spotlights on it as two Mosaic artists painted their own designs and art over both sides of the truck, in effect, incorporating much of the graffiti that was already there!
While this was a very cool idea, I think I’d be more than a little freaked out if I came in next Monday to find the maintenance crew involved in a similar type of graffiti solution!
Anyway, only 12 more hours of school until Thanksgiving…not that I’m counting or anything!
Themocracy
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