The Product of Four Years at Syracuse University...

Letters on the Walls

Sure it's easy to distinguish one city from the next by depending on monumental structures such as the Empire State Building or the Golden Gate bridge.  But how about being able to look at street art in one alleyway and know you're in New York City as opposed to San Francisco.  I have always noticed graffiti...from Italy to the Bahamas to Pennsylvania to New York.  Just by looking at graffiti, I would not be able to tell what city-style it followed, but I did find out that graffiti artists can.  I became interested in finding out how engravings on walls during the ancient times became what we know today as graffiti.  It went from being known as art to being known as vandalism.  Today, cities are creating structures in which artists can express themselves legally.

I found a local Syracuse graffiti artist on Facebook and this was the product of that discovery...