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From: Doug da Rocha Holmes <>
Subject: [AZORES-L] Re: Graffiti
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 14:36:48 -0700
In-Reply-To: <23.f5cfd25.289c6df8@cs.com>


John,

>From the quotes just posted, these examples of graffiti are little different than cave drawings, which must be the origin of both writing and art.

I suppose what I meant was "modern" graffiti, is what we have exported. But I don't know what you saw in Portugal in 1974. Was it just like modern graffiti here? Was it an eye sore or just found in select places like we used to have before the late 1970s? Was it all spray painted on walls? You do say "endemic" so I guess you mean it was also pretty bad.

Sure, I remember under bridges and certain places where kids hung out, like big rocks in a park, that someone would write "Joey lives Lisa." But I am not really talking about that type of graffiti. Then there is the old standard, the bathroom wall...

Doug

ps - maybe a hint is the actual word "graffiti"- sounds Italian to me!! :-)

At 02:13 PM 8/3/2001 , wrote:
>Graffiti is as old as the Egyptian pyramids and the Roman Aqueducts. I
>remember traveling through Europe in the early seventies and saw much more
>graffiti than I had ever seen in the States. I also remember that after the
>1974 revolution in Portugal, graffiti was endemic in Portugal and the Azores.
>
>John M. Raposo

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