I had been looking forward to going to this graffiti museum since our professor Jay had told our class. My dad would be jealous. (Bennett and I cannot figure out how to form this sentence so I am leaving it random. Sorry bout it.) Every family trip we take, if there is graffiti, my dad loves to have one of the four kids pose in front of it. If you don’t pose, it will not make it to the living room display. Sorry not sorry.
Anyways, Jay had been really mysterious about the whole thing, refusing to tell us much. I think this only made it a bigger deal of where we were actually going. We ended up on Leake Street behind Waterloo Station, an old train system use to run down there and it has more or less turned into a graffiti museum. Street artists approached those who owned the tunnel and asked if they could take it over as a self-governed place to display graffiti. Surprisingly, the owners handed the tunnel over. Famous street artists such as Banksy and Team Robbo came for the first opening to make their mark, some of which is still up today. The tunnel will blow your mind with how talented these artists can be. I think I looked at the walls with my mouth dropped open the whole time. It is a different class of art, but it is truly amazing how talented people are, even if they are just writing tags. I ended up spotting some left over Banksy that no one had yet touched. We ended the outing with a discussion on whether graffiti is art or not.
I believe it is, but there are two sides to every argument. I would say that art is a way of expressing yourself and graffiti is just that. People are not going to universally appreciate or like the same art however, who says they have to? There are different art forms out there for everyone to enjoy, why degrade what someone else enjoys just because you don’t like it?
**pictures to come**
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