What’s wrong with this picture?

For as far back as ancient Africa people have been recording events and putting messages on walls.

Over thousands of years this has mutated into various strands like posters, signs and Graffiti. What most people would recognise as modern graffiti, exploded in New York around the 1970′s as one of the four elements (or five as Doug E Fresh would have it including Beat Boxing)  As most things from the states, Graff soon spread across the pond to our shores, resulting in a visual assualt of tags and peices.

Check out the links for a bit of background info:

Props to callumtoenail

As you saw, the powers that be wearn’t too keen on Graff, just as they aren’t much now (so no change there). Which means that if you partake in a bit of rebellion using an aerosol can, you could earn yourself community service, probation, a fine or even a little stretch as it is a criminal act of vandalism! (not good for the CV)
However, with beuatiful pieces such as this around, can all of it be classed as vandalism?

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