Some graffiti is actually art

Where we currently live in Enmore, inner west Sydney, there is a lot of graffiti. Well there is tagging, which in my view is just vandalism, but there's also quite a bit of actual artwork.  Much of the graffiti is actually done on "legal" walls and the artists have a real pride in it.  It does colour up the neighborhood.

This street mural has been around for years.  I like it that it hasn't been tagged over.

The wall below is fairly newly sprayed and just up the street from our house.  It's colourful in that graffiti kind of way.

Adds colour to an otherwise boring wall.

I don't have to go far to find street art, actually just outside my back gate.  The mural below has very recently changed, and I didn't know until today.  The Pink Panther was always there but the rest was a cartoon version of Inspector Clouseau.  Looks like somebody died spraying a train, hence the station scene and "Rest in Peace".  Sadly, it does happen.  It's just too dangerous.  So please don't try and spray trains or train tunnels.

Newly modified, slightly bleak

That's a real street sign incorporated

Train close-up

The whole wall again

This one is right next door and has also been there for ages, unchanged.  Glad it doesn't get tagged

I'm going to go in search of street art now.  However, below are two examples of what I call mindless tagging.  Especially because it was done on the walls of our old house.  It was so annoying, and expensive to get rid of.  I just think - why don't you tag your mother's house?

What a mess.  Even the footpath looks bad

This is not art, it's very ugly, especially on my house.  It cost a lot of money to get rid of this.