Assignment Two: Photo Package Goal Statement

Over the last few weeks, there has been a good amount of graffiti showing up on and off campus. I took one of my best shots during the Urbana Sweetcorn Festival, with crowds of people walking past, barely noticing it (probably because it was a reference to a video game, and not some other more notable facet of pop culture). Either way, the little blue spot in the alley of Race Street was soon accomplied by Two weeks ago, I woke up one quiet Saturday to find the message "I chose a bad day to quit sniffing glue" scrabbled in red spray paint across the east wall of my apartment building. Obviously, a message like that didn't stick around for too long.

To police and landlords alike, public vandalism is just vandalism. Someone needs to get paid to clean the mess up, and this is usually the case whenever anything vulgar is sprayed on University property. Yet off campus, 'street art' tells a different story. Some taggers spray over the work of their competitors, some aside. Outlaw artists work to spread a message as far as they can, and others follow. Since getting a chance to talk to them on record will present a major legal obstacle, I plan to take this chance to complete a diverse package of street art and messages, and how the community feels about them, outside of a high-brow college campus.

Here are the two photos as referenced.