Alt title: There are 5 distinct types of graffiti?

No urban landscape is complete without graffiti everywhere. And the majority of it (gang, tagger, vandalism) isn’t art.

But a small percentage of it is, as the 1982 movie “Wild Style” showed us. Oh Zoro, will you ever fit into high society!?

Amidst all the junk, once in a while you get a Banksy, or a genuinely beautiful/provocative piece of social commentary.

But we spend $12 billion annually painting over and otherwise erasing graffiti. Which says nothing of the billions spent on the spray paint to create that graffiti.

Sometimes graffiti is spectacular human expression, and sometimes it’s toxic sludge.

Sometimes buildings are worth preserving, and sometimes they’re dystopian, ugly boxes.

But how much time and money do we spend as a society undoing each other’s efforts?