Posted by Freaktography Somebody call the police because the police wrote on the walls with PERMANENT MARKER!!!
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Police services often use abandoned buildings for training purposes. They are either 'donated' for the cause, or are owned by the Province of Ontario (Infrastructure Ontario) who also own the O.P.P. It's not like the police just walked in and decided to write on the walls.
This entire thread has been rehashed and will be rehashed in the future under various forms. The end arguments are always the same no matter who, where, how or why...
Person A: I leave my name in public places on other people's property.
Person B: That's vandalism.
Person A: No, it's "art".
Person B: Funny how you justify damaging property as 'art'. Can I poop on your lawn in the name of art? Can I paint the side of your house in the name of art?
Person A: You're an explorer, you're a hypocrite. You trespass. Your opinion is moot.
Person B: I take photos and don't vandalize. I have some great photos as a result, what do you have?
Person A: Everyone knows my name, I'm famous dude.
People are too locked into their own mindset on UER to ever have this debate rationally, or have personal affiliations with the artist.
To find a neutral view, talk to the families (not the teens) who raise their children in these neighbourhoods and whose children bike, walk or play near this 'art'. To those who've bothered to solicit opinion, you'd not be all too surprised to hear that these families DON'T appreciate their neighbourhoods looking like shit. When you're 16 years old, maybe you care that other teens see your
and ooh and ahh, but many a working man finds it repulsive.
If someone joined this site and never explored once, never trespassed once, would their opinion then carry weight? No because then we'd go back to square one with the "it's art" argument.
Bottom line - talk to the families in your neighbourhood. I have, and have never heard of one person wanting this 'art'. That's why when I find it on our local playground, mailboxes or hydro boxes, I'm out there with the varsol and SOS pads. The comments from passers by? Positive.
But alas, I'm an explorer and I contact little old ladies who own houses and I've banned people from my site and people don't like me and I kick cats and ladies cross the street to avoid me so fuck me sideways because I can't have an opinion and oppress the 'artist'.
I'll agree with Skye, Jerm has a talent for story telling and for photography. I've explained to him privately why I feel he does what he does, and would welcome his return to exploring and photographing.
When you're old and grey would you rather have your tags long since painted over by a kid who's still got acne, or have a wall full of splendid decay, maybe published a book or two and met some great companions along the way?
To each their own.... back to bickering.