Your Graffiti Is Too Cool For Me

Dear Neighborhood Graffiti Artists,

Lately you've been making me feel confused and uncool.Yesterday I concluded that this is a depiction of modern motherhood: motor oil, baby vomit, and chairs on wheels.

Today I decided it's a depiction of our modern environment: toxic blue-green water, steel, and comfy chairs on wheels.

I have a sneaking suspicion I'm wrong on both fronts, and this has left me feeling like I'm no longer cool and avant garde enough for my super hipster Los Angeles neighborhood.

I am also losing cool points with my kids since I'm unable to answer, "Mommy, what's that on the wall over there?"

Since my self-esteem is really taking a beating due to your vandalism artistic expression, how about you keep the graffiti to stuff I recognize, like tricked out Frankensteins and Yodas? Even the random words you used to draw in puffy letters, like "Bonk" and "Face" are cool with me. At least I can read those.

Your girl,

Los Angelista

Comments

nick said…
Have to say I loathe graffiti, most of it's a complete eyesore and often it ruins otherwise attractive surroundings. Only about 1% of it has any artistic merit whatever and even if it does, did the local community ever agree to it? One of the worst inventions of the twentieth century.
Liz Dwyer said…
Nick
I hear you. Some of it is really ugly. I tend to like graffiti that's more along the lines of wall murals. And in some ways it's better than the crap random taggers leave on the walls.
Jameil said…
i think it's a rabbit and a kidney stuck in a briar patch. great opportunity to tell your kids how art is different to the eyes of all!
Liz Dwyer said…
Jameil,
Yes! I think I can see the kidney!

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