Graffiti In Semilong Northampton

Urban Art To Be Supported

Graffiti can be seen as `urban art` and it has been known to sell for millions. Consequently, SEMILONG.ORG support graffiti art. There should be a place for it in any community, a place where styles can be tested and shown. Afterall if Van Gogh was in Semilong Northampton, and wanted to paint in a public place, who would say no? Art is art.

Place & Content Issues

However, there are place and content issues also to consider. Graffiti on the side of a local school...not a good place, on various walls and doors around the neighbourhood. Also not a good idea.

The idea is to have graffiti in a recognised place where it can be seen and yet not cause any issue.

It is for that reason that SEMILONG.ORG call for a place to be established in Semilong Northampton that is suitable. Perhaps for a wall to be built somewhere at Miller's Meadow or at the edge of the Racecourse? Or somewhere else in our Semilong Northampton community perhaps..

Graffiti To Inspire

The other thing to consider is content. Graffiti can be an awesome tool to inspire people, to express emotion..all sorts.

In Berlin in Germany, when the Russians built the wall through the city, dividing communities and even families, over time people graffiti'd the wall. It wasn't tags that were drawn or anything like that. It was art. It expressed the feelings of people wanting to tear down the wall, it memorialised the people that were killed attempting to cross the divide. It can still be seen in some sections of the walls left standing or in the many photographs that have been taken.

Even in South London, it is known for people to graffiti walls and entire buildings in some cases, to memorialise those killed by gang violence. SEMILONG.ORG recommends everyone to go down there and see it. It is all graffiti, and it is all art !! and it is as moving as any old master on the walls of the Louvre Gallery in Paris..

Tags Are Criminal Damage

If you look around our community, you see the occasional tag on a wall or door. That isn't graffiti or art, that is just plain criminal damage with a pen or a can of paint or whatever tool a mindless toe rag want to use. Tags or racist slogans as what were recently on the wall of Castle School in St Georges Street are definitely not graffiti, it is just mindless vandalism.

For that reason SEMILONG.ORG will totally support any police action against these people.

The perpetrators when caught, also will face being immortalised on this internet site so it can continue to bite them until they are old and grey and hopefully wiser.

Graffiti is art, a very modern form of art, but still should be encouraged. However, anyone who considers `tags` or racist slogans as graffiti and therefore acceptable, we strongly urge to think again.

Graffiti Or Criminal Damage?

Criminal Damage on the side of a house in Semilong Northampton is painted over.